[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#774845: yaboot 1.3.17 is out

Milan Kupcevic milan at physics.harvard.edu
Mon Jun 22 21:39:54 UTC 2015


tags 774845 + help d-i
block 322540 by 774845
block 719479 by 774845
block 641852 by 774845
block 697813 by 774845
block 784387 by 774845
block 697813 by 774845
thanks


On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:58:09 +0100 Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: yaboot
> 
> It would be nice to package newer yaboot release. It fixes:
> 
> Key features are:
> 
> Better netboot
> IPv6 support for netboot
> Bug fixes for iscsi and pSeries
> Removal of old dead code
> Now builds with -Werror
> 


Yaboot upstream development is dead for several years already. While it
was possible to make it work with e2fslibs 1.42.2 with some patching,
linking to any later version won't work.

It is probably not worth investing any more time and efforts to maintain
this package. I would rather spend my Debian time to help bring
grub-ieee1275 into Stretch d-i than to continue reanimating this dead
animal.

While there is a valid rationale to ask FTP Masters to remove Yaboot
package from sid, I'm tagging this bug with 'help' to give a chance for
possible takers to provide help or take it over.

Milan


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