On 12/22/18 6:27 AM, Bjoern Franke wrote: > Hi Eli, > >> While I understand it's disappointing to not have desired features from >> the package, it does take some time to get those features when they >> suffer from being both unreleased code, and code on top of a package >> that doesn't validly build in 2018. Please wait, we are trying to get to >> a working state, and hopefully our syslinux maintainer will be able to >> resolve this sometime soon. Once we can trust the package actually >> works, we can move it to stable. >> >> Hope this clears things up for you. :) >> Good luck. >> > > I'm thankful for pointing out the issues regarding syslinux. I assumed > some issues when seeing that 6.04 was not released since 2 years, but I > did not assume that it is so bad. Sounds somehow like upstream is more > or less dead? :/ > But in MBR-land it seems to be the only alternative to grub? Bootloaders seem to suffer from a depressing lack of competition. Much as I like grub, I can appreciate the sadness that is this lack. Apparently syslinux git (a.k.a. the future 6.04) will also finally support the ext4 "64bit" feature. Took them long enough. :( -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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