Joachim Wiedorn <joodeb...@joonet.de> schrieb: >> Your approach above will be good for users of unstable and testing, but >> how does this help users of stable, when they upgrade from buster to >> bullseye after the release of the latter? Just by writing this in the >> release notes? Is that the best we can do? > > That's right, it doesn't help users of stable and oldstable, if they make > an upgrade.=20 > > But then the only solution is making a transitional package "lilo" which > have dependency to grub2, which will install grub2 and remove the binaries > of lilo. This can entail many risks. Because of many different system > structures it could be, that at the end there is no functioning booting on > this system ...=20
I doubt that's really needed? Anyone who willingly installed lilo over the default in the last decade (or longer) made a very specific expert choice, simply mentioning that in the release notes should be totally fine. Cheers, Moritz