Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:55:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:06:56 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Don't you think that lilo will be left in the repos but not available
>>>> at install time? You could then install lilo post-OS-install or
>>>> through pre-seeding.
>>>
>>> Not without an active upstream maintainer. That's the critical need now.
>>
>> I meant to say the Lenny repos (although I am curious to see whether
>> it will really disappear from the Squeeze repos once Squeeze is
>> released).
>
> If they pull it, they will probably pull it *before* squeeze becomes the
> current stable release. Once a release becomes the stable release, it's
> almost impossible to pull a package from it.
I know. I chose the release as a check-point because I don't know at
what previous milestone such a move would take place.
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