Bug#106399: GRUB Legacy is feature frozen

[Otavio Salvador]

Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:

> 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)

Hello Robert,

I think we need RM approval for it now since GRUB is part of Debian
base system. Looks like it won't hurt too much since it'll be another
binary package and my only worry is if it doesn't work well we could
start to receive a lot of bug reports.

I can understand the sadness of Frederic since he did a nice work on
the patch but I'm not sure if is safe enough to apply it near of
complete freeze :(

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