On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:46:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:42:46PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > But why waste time creating that infrastructure when those > > maintainers who need a clean build environment can already > > create their own chroots with minimal effort. > > Because : > > 1) sometimes pbuilder is broken, and thus not working. > 2) because pbuilder uses time and bandwith over a normal upload. pbuilder is not the only tool that can be used to create a chroot. If you didn't know this, then I am astounded at your ignorance. > 3) because it saves time for maintainers. Most active maintainers are > already rather overworked, so time saved for them will enable them to > do more usefull stuff than something that could easily be spared them > with minimal effort, like fixing RC bugs or working on debian-installer > for example. ...or yammering away on this mailing list instead of getting work done. 7736 L Oct 17 Sven Luther ( 36) Re: Source only uploads? 7744 L Oct 17 Sven Luther ( 83) Re: Source only uploads? 7748 L Oct 17 Sven Luther ( 64) Re: Source only uploads? 7751 L Oct 17 Sven Luther ( 74) Re: Source only uploads? 7752 L Oct 17 Sven Luther ( 45) Re: Source only uploads? 7757 L Oct 17 Sven Luther ( 83) Re: Source only uploads? 7864 L Oct 19 Sven Luther ( 32) Re: Source only uploads? 7870 L Oct 19 Sven Luther ( 58) Re: how to ask for packages rebuilding 7898 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 123) Re: how to ask for packages rebuilding 7902 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 54) Re: Source only uploads? 7903 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 69) Re: Source only uploads? 7905 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 121) Re: how to ask for packages rebuilding 7908 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 24) Re: how to ask for packages rebuilding 7909 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 57) Re: how to ask for packages rebuilding 7913 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 20) Re: how to ask for packages rebuilding 7915 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 42) Re: how to ask for packages rebuilding 7933 L Oct 20 Sven Luther ( 24) Re: Source only uploads? 7993 L Oct 21 Sven Luther ( 34) Re: Source only uploads? 8082 L Oct 22 Sven Luther ( 80) Re: Source only uploads? 8084 L Oct 22 Sven Luther ( 32) Re: Source only uploads? 8104 L Oct 22 Sven Luther ( 39) Re: Source only uploads? -- G. Branden Robinson | Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux | sex was dirty. I said, "It is if branden@debian.org | you're doing it right." http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Woody Allen
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