On Mon Apr 06 08:55, Frans Pop wrote: > > This is a heads up mail for the D-I team. > > I'm not sure where the original mail comes from, but IMO this should be > discussed on d-devel, especially since it impacts more than just D-I. I > suspect there are quite a few packages that make some sort of provisions > for lilo. > There are also significant numbers of people still using lilo for, at > least for them, very good reasons.
Yes, please do discuss it here. I am one of those users, grub didn't work on one of my machines for some reason. Anyway, isn't grub1 equally unmaintained upstream? I thought they were only working on grub2 (which isn't ready for use yet, or is it?) > > Don't we have some install paths that still depend on LILO? > > Yes: /boot on LVM is the main one. We _certainly_ shouldn't throw it out if there are _known_ situations for which it's required. By all means print large warnings or only make it available in expert mode, or whatever, but please don't break existing functionality. Matt -- Matthew Johnson
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