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Re: [PROPOSAL] Origin and Bugs support



On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:55:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:22:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:51:32PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> > > I agree with this, and this is what prompted my original
> > > followup. This seems like a win for both sides, though Anthony
> > > Towns indicated that he doesn't like the potential for "hording"
> > > that this creates.
> > 
> > I'm fairly sure I did no such thing.
> 
> I think Eric confused you with one of the (many) other contrarians in the
> Project.  >:-)
> 
> (FWIW, I disagree with Eric that environment variables should override
> command-line options.  The real mistake was probably codifying the explicit
> usage of ".." in the dpkg-deb command line; if only that directory was
> supposed to be used, it would have made more sense to just implicitly
> assume it inside the tool, and thus give us the freedom to change it
> later.)

I think you are in the wrong thread. Try the thread down the hall :)

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