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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le lundi 22 novembre 2010 à 19:58 +0100, Joachim Wiedorn a écrit :
> There are new packages for Debian and Ubuntu, made with the same
> source
> package of LILO 23.1.
> 
> It can be seen in the following git repository:
> http://git.debian.org/?p=lilo/debian.git;a=summary

Hey Joachim,

Is the git you are pointing there the official lilo one? Did you
official become maintainer for lilo in Debian or does that need to be
reviewed and approved before landing?

> It can be downloaded for Ubuntu Natty (i386, amd86):
> http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ftp/ubuntu/
> 
> and can be downloaded for Debian Squeeze (i386, amd64):
> http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ftp/debian/
> 
> While working on these new packages I have analyzed all bugreports for
> LILO in Debian and Ubuntu. I have created many patches which can now
> be
> used to close 25 Debian bugreports and 5 Ubuntu bugreports.

Great work!

> Finally the new packages for Ubuntu can be uploaded to the official
> repository.

Shouldn't we rather wait on a Debian upload and sync from it?

> Would it be a good idea to make packages for Maverick, too?
> Which naming scheme would be the best? 23.1-1ubuntu1~maverick1 ? 

The stable update rules usually allow only selected fixes for specific
issues, it's not likely that this version would be allowed as such but
backporting some of the patches might be possible. I would suggest
getting the new version in natty rather though, grub is used by default
in Ubuntu and most stable users will not need that update.

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher

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