Re: [PATCH] import multiboot1 specification in grub trunk

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:35:23PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> 1) deleting files fails because of .svn directories
> 2) One of the hunks for configure.ac was rejected.
> 3) Is there any reason for keeping following line:
>  HELP2MAN = help2man
> 4) version is still wrong.
> 5) It looks like --with-binutils can be kept but not necessary to do
> so since it's effect is the same as calling configure with
> CFLAGS="-B<dir>"
> 6) INSTALL, NEWS and README are out of sync
> 7) AUTHORS seem empty. At least following author must be added:
> * docs/multiboot.texi: New file. From Kunihiro Ishiguro.
> 8) COPYING contains GPLv2. fdl.texi isn't imported.
> 9) ChangeLog contains whole history of grub1, not just multiboot.
> Attached python file cleans it up (output still contains some junk but
> it's feasible to remove it by hand)
> 10) autogen.sh doesn't generate configure.

I imported GRUB Legacy into Bazaar and made a Multiboot branch, in
/trunk/multiboot, addressing most of the problems.

Pending: 3, 5, 6, first part of 8, and (feel free to) 9.

When the cleanup is finished, we can release 0.6.96 with unmodified text
(except for Felix' spelling fixes).

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