Re: Source only uploads?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:46:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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?

Thanks for your support Branden.

BTW, when do we get a proper 4.3.0 X in unstable ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther