Bug#604397: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 04:02:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> (Sending this to 629385@bugs.debian.org, which is the cloned bug actually
> assigned to the TC...)
>
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:06:18AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > The proposal 3) (which is implemented in dpkg as of today) was devised
> > following a discussion in Debian policy bug #218893 as a compromise
> > solution that was agreeable to everyone, then a patch to dpkg was written (bug
> > #229357). For reasons beyond my control, the patch was actually merged only
> > today.
>
> I think your read that this was a "compromise solution that was agreeable to
> everyone" is incorrect. Scott James Remnant (a dpkg maintainer at the time)
> raised in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=218893#345 the
> same objection about fragility that others have raised since.
Scott did not take part in the initial discussion, so there was no way his objection
would be taken into account.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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