On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:42:10 +0200 Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote: > And because we want to do a really really good solution, a ten year > old wishlist bug which has a patch in the BTS for three years remains > unsolved? It's wishlist - I dread to think how many higher severity bugs have been opened and closed against apt in that time. Priorities... > A true wise decision which proves that we always care about > our users. It's a minor irritation which we already have support in the important tools (sbuild, pbuilder) and a variety of other methods for other use cases. If installing something from a cross-building heritage is so impossible for you, then copy the perl code out of embuilddeps and remove the cross-stuff. It's not hard to do - it just isn't sufficiently important that I can see any need to do it right now. There's a release to do first. The code to do this exists, it up to you to use it instead of whinging about the Social Contract, *again*. (Always the last resort of those who only want to complain without actually writing some code.) I don't mind if the quoted bug gets fixed, I've written a tool which does what I need and I've uploaded it to Debian (a long time ago). Use it, fork it, I really don't mind - just don't continue to moan without at least explaining why it won't work for your situation. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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