Re: sbuild package
Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:53:22PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> > > > sbuild package is broken.
>> > >
>> > > It can't be that broken - works for me here, and did so ever since I
>> > > first installed it.
>> >
>> > Try to compile bash
>>
>> Selecting a few packages does not make it so broken that one requests
>> its removal. If it would break on most of the package - removal would be
>> justified. If it fails on a few, that's a bug, a nasty one which should
>> be fixed in a timely manner. However, it does not make the package
>> completely broken, and is not a good reason enough to ask for its
>> removal (or to suggest doing so).
>
> It is broken if it has not been updated in 1.5 years, it was forked (and its
> fork is used in the buildds), the bash bug was known and solved in the forked
The bash bug only exists since bash 3.0 I think. But the two zsh
package have hit the same bug.
> branch (although no one ever filled a serious bug against it nor the changes
> made on the forked oneone were integrated in the code) and the script which
> the documentation claims need to be used has an RC for 154 days.
MfG
Goswin
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