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

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/25/2013 02:38 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 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.
If you read to the end, you'll see that it was. :-)

 -George


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