From gentoo-dev  Tue Feb 21 22:57:40 2012
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:57:40 +0000
To: gentoo-dev
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking
Message-Id: <ji17h7$bor$1 () dough ! gmane ! org>
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On 22/02/12 00:38, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pacho Ramos<pacho@gentoo.org>  wrote:
>> As looks like fixing old grub is far away because nobody know what is
>> causing that issues, probably trying to get grub-1.99 ready for
>> stabilization would be interesting (we will need to do that sooner or
>> later anyway)
>
> Ubuntu has used grub2 for 3 years, I am considering working on making
> it stable for at least x86 / amd64.

That's good news.  I think Gentoo has a policy on not providing 
unmaintained software in the tree (they're getting tree cleaned.)  Given 
that Grub 1 is both beta software (it got stuck at 0.97, never made it 
to 1.0) and unmaintained, stabilizing Grub 2 ASAP is the sanest thing 
you can do, since even though it's also beta software, it's at least 
maintained by upstream.