Re: Requesting to take over maintenance of lilo
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 5:21 AM Joshua Hudson wrote:
> Basically, the existing package maintainer doesn't want to maintain
> lilo anymore, says "will disappear by end of 2020"
You might want to read through the thread about this if you haven't yet:
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20191111193422.2852bbf4@jupiter.home
> I have some hardware that update-grub just doesn't understand
Please report a bug about it if you haven't done that yet.
> a locally modified lilo that has support for it.
Is the modification likely to be break lilo for other folks or is it
suitable for distribution in the Debian package?
> I want to take over lilo maitenance so that apt-get update integration
> continues to work.
Please contact the current lilo maintainer about this and also read
through these documents:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#adopting-a-package
https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
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pabs
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