Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am orphaning lilo. The current maintainer William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org> have no interest for a long time for maintaining lilo (see links). From co-maintainer Matt Arnold <mattarnold5@gmail.com> I know he have not enough time for maintaining lilo, but he would like to provide a new maintainer. For more information see here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587886 (07/2010) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00769.html (05/2010) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504733#15 (11/2008) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00400.html (06/2008) And the newest RC bug says that this package is not prepared for the next stable release (squeeze): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590022 Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it. If you want to be the new maintainer, please see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly. Some information about this package: Source: lilo Binary: lilo, lilo-doc Architecture: amd64 i386 ia64 all Version: 1:22.8-8.1 Maintainer: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org> Uploaders: Matt Arnold <mattarnold5@gmail.com> Standards-Version: 3.8.1 Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-maint/ext-maint/lilo/trunk/ Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/collab-maint/ext-maint/lilo/trunk/ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0), transfig, texlive-latex-base, bin86 (>= 0.16), sharutils, po-debconf (>= 0.5.0), libdevmapper-dev, quilt Files: 3111b5f52cc0dc96ebe8903702a9d29f 449315 lilo_22.8.orig.tar.gz d2b4d8aafb8e8ca7b5db2493c8aebfa9 233665 lilo_22.8-8.1.diff.gz Package: lilo Version: 1:22.8-8.1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org> Installed-Size: 1124 Depends: mbr, debconf (>= 1.2.9) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.3), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.20) Suggests: lilo-doc Conflicts: manpages (<< 1.29-3) Section: admin Priority: optional Description: LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and others This package contains lilo (the installer) and boot-record-images to install Linux, OS/2, DOS and generic Boot Sectors of other OSes. . You can use LILO to manage your Master Boot Record (with a simple text screen, text menu or colorful splash graphics) or call LILO from other Boot-Loaders to jump-start the Linux kernel.
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