Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:16 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> > I still would prefer (1) or (2) since this would ensure that the same >> > awk would be used on all platforms. This would prevent potential >> > incompatibilities. >> >> (1) is right out since it would mean that I wouldn't be able to >> compile e2fsprogs on my system without first uninstalling gawk. Not >> Going To Happen. > > As a responsible maintainer, you are using pbuilder for preparing > uploads anyway. This way, you don't need to uninstall gawk.
a) don't be ridiculous, there are plenty of "responsible" ways to maintain packages that don't involve pbuilder. b) maintainers are not the only people who build packages and even when they do build them in a chroot, there are situations where you want the build-depends of as many packages as possible in the chroot. In that situation (and many others) build-conflicts are _painful_. Please don't advocate their use unless they're absolutely necessary (and they clearly aren't in this case). -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
