On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 13:25, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
> I'm still listed being the maintainer of our lilo package. The former
> upstream website is down for months, only some mirrors are available.
> Though the package is still working well (haven't heard any complains)
> we have 2 good working grub(-legacy) and also grub(2) alternatives and
> we recommend these now all time.
>
> Do you guys think it's time to drop lilo from the repos? I'd like to do
> so. Or does somebody want to take it over from me?
>
> -Andy
>

According to pkgstats, it has a fairly wide install base, so I think
if it gets moved anywhere, community would be best...
That being said, do we want to encourage people to use it? It's pretty
old and featureless, and as you say, apparantly not really maintained
any longer

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 13:25, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
>> I'm still listed being the maintainer of our lilo package. The former
>> upstream website is down for months, only some mirrors are available.
>> Though the package is still working well (haven't heard any complains)
>> we have 2 good working grub(-legacy) and also grub(2) alternatives and
>> we recommend these now all time.
>>
>> Do you guys think it's time to drop lilo from the repos? I'd like to do
>> so. Or does somebody want to take it over from me?
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>
> According to pkgstats, it has a fairly wide install base, so I think
> if it gets moved anywhere, community would be best...
> That being said, do we want to encourage people to use it? It's pretty
> old and featureless, and as you say, apparantly not really maintained
> any longer

The stats are probably related to the fact that it's in the base group.

Do we lose anything by dropping lilo? Is there anything that only lilo can do?

> The stats are probably related to the fact that it's in the base group.

Yes, and you can have both installed. Can we check who has both grub
and lilo or is that not possible with the stats we collect?

> Do we lose anything by dropping lilo? Is there anything that only lilo can do?

grub-legacy can't boot GPT, but I think that's added in grub2.

Dale

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 13:46, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
> The stats are probably related to the fact that it's in the base group.

Good point. I didn't even know I had it installed on my system. Gone now...

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 13:46, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
> The stats are probably related to the fact that it's in the base group.

Good point. I didn't even know I had it installed on my system. Gone now...

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
> I'm still listed being the maintainer of our lilo package. The former
> upstream website is down for months, only some mirrors are available.
> Though the package is still working well (haven't heard any complains)
> we have 2 good working grub(-legacy) and also grub(2) alternatives and
> we recommend these now all time.
>
> Do you guys think it's time to drop lilo from the repos? I'd like to do
> so. Or does somebody want to take it over from me?
>
> -Andy
>

I use lilo for one of my system so I could take it over. I think we
should keep it as long that it keeps working well.

Ok, Eric go on and adopt it from my package list.