From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIhc-0007OY-L4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIhZ-0007Lw-AB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIhX-0007Lk-4s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56143 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKIhX-0007Lh-1Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:43 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:35381) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKIhW-0008K6-Le for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:06:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KKIbx-0004lm-0z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:00:57 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KKIgi-0002wZ-GT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:05:52 +0200 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:05:52 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080719200552.GC10533@thorin> References: <20080719140642.GA23265@thorin> <18d205ed0807190858hca30664p257df8f635ffe187@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <18d205ed0807190858hca30664p257df8f635ffe187@mail.gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: bug-grub X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:06:45 -0000 On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:58:26AM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: > > Hello! > Why I am inclined to think is that the Bug-Grub list should be allowed > to continue for as long as there are available binary blobs and source > code ones for the original Grub-Legacy. But we don't really provide support for them. It's distributors that keep reliing on GRUB Legacy (though they *cough* [1] have their reasons) and supporting it, and their versions are so heavily patched in many cases problems don't apply the same way to upstream GRUB. [1] yep, that includes me with another hat ;-) > Currently that one is in a > finally released state, as Grub2 hastens towards its first actual > release. Notice there GRUB Legacy has never had a stable release either. The only difference is that GRUB 2 is not mainstream yet (and right now the stopper is that a few minor features are missing, and overall code stability needs a bit more love). Anyway, my proposed approach with regard to upstream support of GRUB Legacy, is that in case of trouble users should try GRUB 2. Then if the problem persits, they can report it as a bug so we can get it fixed. I don't think this is leaving users out in the cold; we're simply asking them to upgrade (and all projects do this!). -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)