Bug#190392: ITP: grub-disk -- GRUB bootable disk image

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> 
> If it's only 88kb, then why not putting it into the grub package.

Just to clear out: on the size argument, excuse me but it's inconsistent.
you can't suggest putting it into grub because it's so big (1.44MB) and
then suggest the same because it's so small (88KB)

Andrew and Christian, both of you are suggesting to merge grub-disk into
grub. There are some advantages and disadvantages, the disadvantages are
that:

- Adding it makes maintaining GRUB more complicated and error-prone for
the GRUB maint. Please note that grub-disk has "extra" Priority while GRUB
is a candidate to become Debian's default bootloader (see bug #155807).
I don't want to force the GRUB maintainer waste his time fixing grub-disk
when he should make sure that a base package is suitable for release.

- I am the developer interested on grub-disk. This means that when i want to
add new features (which i will, and even have plans for them) and fix
functionality problems i'll have to annoy the GRUB maint with patches,
causing delays etc.

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