Hi,

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:02 +0000, James Troup wrote:
> > As a responsible maintainer, you are using pbuilder for preparing
> > uploads anyway. This way, you don't need to uninstall gawk.
> 
> a) don't be ridiculous, there are plenty of "responsible" ways to
>    maintain packages that don't involve pbuilder.

Ted, sorry.

> b) maintainers are not the only people who build packages and even
>    when they do build them in a chroot, there are situations where you
>    want the build-depends of as many packages as possible in the
>    chroot.  In that situation (and many others) build-conflicts are
>    _painful_.  Please don't advocate their use unless they're
>    absolutely necessary (and they clearly aren't in this case).

That's why I suggested an alternative, and finally accepted Ted's other
way of resolving this.

bye,
  Roland



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