Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:20:09 -0400 (EDT), thib wrote:
> 
> In the worst case, people will maintain unofficial packages in unofficial 
> repositories.  In fact, I'm not even sure there's still much to maintain 
> with the package..  just keep it around.
> 
> It's very true, official support is best, but I wouldn't go as far as saying 
> the change is "forced".  This is all still open and hackable software, in 
> the end, and "hack" here means pinning lilo and grub-pc, which should be it. 
> It will still be manageable by apt.

I am still hopeful that lilo will not be dropped from the distribution.
I think it would be a mistake, and I believe lilo has many more years
of useful life than most people think it does (or should have) at this point.
But if they drop it, I'm prepared.  I have already downloaded the source
code, and I will build my own packages if I have to.  For now at least,
I *have* to use lilo for reasons previously discussed.

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