Bug#106399: GRUB Legacy is feature frozen

[Robert Millan]

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)

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