Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch v3 0/2] Remove figlet from the source tree

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch v3 0/2] Remove figlet from the 
source tree"):
> On 11/25/2013 11:00 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > George:
> >    This is purely a build change, so I request that it be included for 4.4
> 
> It's not purely a build change -- figlet is not installed by default on 
> a number of distros (Ubuntu didn't have it); and on those systems, this 
> will silently change remove the figlet-like lettering from boot.

I agree with these criticisms of Andrew's claims for the patch.

But I think the inclusion of a fork of figlet in our tree is totally
crazy (and hence a bug).  I wouldn't want to introduce this patch
without a release ack but I think the release ack should be granted.

Thanks,
Ian.

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