[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#588839: Bug#588839: pv-grub removed ?

[Ian Campbell]

On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 02:49 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: 
> Philipp Kern wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:56:13PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >> Now, I hope someone from the release team will answer this: if we build
> >> a new xen-pv-grub package, will it be accepted by the RT, even if we are
> >> late, as the lack of pv-grub in the xen-utils can be considered a
> >> regression in Squeeze (as Lenny had the feature)?
> > 
> > AFAICS there was no pv-grub in Lenny:
> > 
> > pkern at franck:~/ftp/ftp/dists/lenny$ zgrep pv-grub Contents-amd64.gz Contents-i386.gz
> > pkern at franck:~/ftp/ftp/dists/lenny$
> > 
> > If this is the case, there's no regression.  Furthermore this is a bug of
> > severity:wishlist, so no, it would be too late for this.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Philipp Kern
> 
> Considering that here:
> 
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/PvGrub
> 
> it's written that PvGrub is replacing pygrub,

Replacing is rather strong. They serve similar purposes but its entirely
up to user preference and/or requirements which one is used. They
certainly aren't mutually exclusive or anything like that and pygrub is
not going away upstream any time soon.

> and that in Lenny (unless there's still pygrub in Squeeze,

pygrub _is_ in squeeze:
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/xen-*/bin/pygrub
xen-utils-4.0: /usr/lib/xen-4.0/bin/pygrub

I haven't seen any suggestion, from Bastian or otherwise, that it will
be removed.

I don't believe pvgrub was in Lenny.

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

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