Bug#190392: ITP: grub-disk -- GRUB bootable disk image
Hello
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:13:18PM +0200, Robert Millan 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)
Sorry, misunderstanding: I liked to say that 1.4MB is waste regardless of the
package merging or not, because the data can be gathered from the already
installed packages and put together on the fly..
> Andrew and Christian, both of you are suggesting to merge grub-disk into
> grub. There are some advantages and disadvantages, the disadvantages are
> that:
yep.
> - 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 was of the opinion that this grub-disk image creating is a very small
and simple script that is not very error prone and moreover would very
very unlikely be important enough to grub.deb to justify even an important
bug.
> - 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.
Ok, extra package is better than no script at all so it's up to you. But
maybe you merge the two packages when yours has matured...
bye,
-christian-
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