Hello On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:34 AM Bjoern Franke <bjo@nord-west.org> wrote:
Hi,
I recently wanted to switch from grub to syslinux, but it could not boot my /boot-partition, because it uses XFS.
Unfortunately only syslinux 6.04 supports XFS, while we stick on 6.03. 6.04 is somehow a "testing" version, thought it has been out for 2 years, so I marked 6.03 as "out of date".
I'm wondering a bit why we stick on 6.03, even Debian stable[1] has 6.04.
It is the question you should really ask upstream developers. If the project is stable enough for Debian why they do not rollout a new release? Having project in usable-but-not-released state is confusing. Anyway, an alpha version of 6.04 is pushed to [testing]. The best thing one can do is to test it and make sure all the use-cases you need (e.g. XFS) work correctly. Happy holidays and happy testing.