Re: [RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-19 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote on 2010-06-19 03:55: However, given that route B is present in both lenny and squeeze (and even in etch, I think) there is no good reason for packages not to rely on it now. (Well, except lack of documentation.) All boot loader packages that

[RFC] Updating boot loaders in lenny and squeeze

2010-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Stephen Powell recently reminded the kernel team that LILO is not automatically updated on installation of a new kernel version in lenny. In fact there is a general problem that there are several different ways a boot loader may be updated automatically and currently no guarantee that this does