[arch-releng] dropping lilo?

Smartboy smartboyathome at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 13:57:42 EDT 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> I'm still listed being the maintainer of our lilo package. The former
> upstream website is down for months, only some mirrors are available.
> Though the package is still working well (haven't heard any complains)
> we have 2 good working grub(-legacy) and also grub(2) alternatives and
> we recommend these now all time.
>
> Do you guys think it's time to drop lilo from the repos? I'd like to do
> so. Or does somebody want to take it over from me?
>
> -Andy
>

How about dropping it to unsupported for those who still want to use
it? I think that would be a nice compromise.


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