Bug#106399: GRUB Legacy is feature frozen

[Jason Thomas]

This bug started with simply turning on existing networking support.
I've just read over all the messages and from memory there are problems
with turning them all on at once.

Now the patch that Fr=E9d=E9ric sent in does something completely differe=
nt
and adds a whole bunch of new code.  Unfortunately we can't add this so
close to release.


Now if there was a way to build the existing network drivers and put
them in a seperate package. That would probably be acceptable. I would
prefer not to see a whole another copy of the grub images and tools with
networking support (see the patch from junichi).

As I said in my first reply to this bug. I don't use this feature and
know very little about it. So its upto someone else to explain how this
works.


On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:34:22PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Fr??d??ric BOITEUX wrote:
> > Robert Millan wrote :
> > > tag 106399 wontfix
> > >=20
> > > 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 someth=
ing new that
> > > is going to become mandatory for some reason).  We should be stabil=
ising for the
> > > etch release rather than introducing new sources of potential probl=
ems.
> > >=20
> > > 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 d=
evelopment
> > > (both debian and upstream) and new features are welcome there.
> >=20
> > 	Hello,
> >=20
> >   This feature is important to me, isn't new (I've propsed help 2??ye=
ars
> > 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 :-(
>=20
> What do the other maintainers say?  (specialy Jason who has been tracki=
ng this
> bug for quite long)
>=20
> --=20
> Robert Millan
>=20
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