Comment 20 for bug 669363

Hello Sebastien,

Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote on 2010-11-23 10:56:

> Is the git you are pointing there the official lilo one? Did you
> official become maintainer for lilo in Debian or does that need to be
> reviewed and approved before landing?

The git of Lilo upstream is official, because I am the current developer
of Lilo. The Debian/Ubuntu git is still inofficial - but up to date. On
the other hand in the internet exists only a very old official CVS.

How I have said some days ago there is a difficult situation in
maintaining of Lilo in Debian. Here you can read more about this topic:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587886

If the CTTE committee of Debian decide, that I may overtake the
maintaining, then I am the new maintainer.

> > Finally the new packages for Ubuntu can be uploaded to the official
> > repository.
>
> Shouldn't we rather wait on a Debian upload and sync from it?

We can wait, but I don't know how long we must wait: two weeks, two
months ...? Perhaps to long for Lilo and for Ubuntu.

> The stable update rules usually allow only selected fixes for specific
> issues, it's not likely that this version would be allowed as such but
> backporting some of the patches might be possible. I would suggest

So there apply similar rules as for Debian.

Have a nice day,

Joachim (Germany)