On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 04:43 -0500, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: > Package: lilo > Version: 1:22.8-8.2 > Justification: breaks unrelated software
The kernel is most certainly not 'unrelated' to lilo. > Severity: critical > Tags: sid > > The lilo package is installed but /etc/lilo.conf is missing; at present > I use grub. > > In the latest update of lilo, I can no longer install kernel updates, as > seen in the following output: This is ultimately a bug in the new policy for boot loaders. I didn't consider (and no-one pointed out) that a boot loader package might be installed even though the boot loader is not installed. This will be fixed. [...] > I should also mention that as far as I can recall, this same lilo update > removed /etc/lilo.conf -- I recall reading a message. [...] It's not supposed to do this; I think you must be mistaken. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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