Re: Request for NMU

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:43:47PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:

> > I didn't read the whole thread. There were many suggestions, but
> > when talking about short term solutions you have to admit that the
> > Build-Conflicts solution to this problem is:

> I agree it works in the short term.  In fact, it works the most
> reliably out of all the short term solutions.  But it is the worst
> solution in the long term, because it has the potential to break a lot
> of packages the second a new automake hits unstable.

It doesn't even work in the short-term, since it prohibits me from
compiling such a package on my local machine if I have automake
installed, which most developer have.

 - Sebastian