Bug#106399: GRUB Legacy is feature frozen

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:34:22PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> > Robert Millan wrote :
> > > tag 106399 wontfix
> > > 
> > > GRUB Legacy is now feature frozen, both in upstream and in debian.  We only
> > > accept bug fixes or very essential features (e.g. to support something new that
> > > is going to become mandatory for some reason).  We should be stabilising for the
> > > etch release rather than introducing new sources of potential problems.
> > > 
> > > Please, rather than directing your work at a frozen branch, look at wether
> > > your proposed feature makes sense in GRUB 2.  GRUB 2 is in active development
> > > (both debian and upstream) and new features are welcome there.
> > 
> > 	Hello,
> > 
> >   This feature is important to me, isn't new (I've propsed help 2 years
> > ago, and submitted a patch one month ago as requested), and won't be
> > available in Grub2 soon (no network support now !)... My patch added a
> > new package, not modifying current ones..
> >   Too bad for other Debian users :-(
> 
> What do the other maintainers say?  (specialy Jason who has been tracking this
> bug for quite long)

Btw, upstream tells me there are networking patches pending commit (both from
Vincent Guffens and Marco Gerards).  Perhaps you could talk to them and see if
that works for you?

Note that GRUB 2 is (hopefuly) going to be included in etch too, and it doesn't
suffer from any release-related freeze restrictions.

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