Re: [PATCH] Remove HFS support

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

On 8/19/22 21:04, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> There is no need for that code on any signed grubs or upstream. Ports that want 
> to
> support this patch can have it conditionally compiled / enabled only on that 
> arch,
> but not other.

That's not how open source works. Individual projects do not get to determine 
what
upstream software supports and what not. And that goes both ways.

> For example, in Ubuntu we already use separate builds for signed & unsigned 
> bootloaders.
> Or one may keep grub-2.06 as separate source package. It's not like those old 
> platforms
> need any new features in the bootloader ever again.

That's not the point. Packages are constantly rebuild in Debian for various 
reasons and
having to maintain the package manually in Debian is quite annoying.

Forcing older ports to use forks of upstream projects is an "elegant" way to 
kill of these
ports as the maintenance burn gets too high.

Adrian

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