Hello, Otto Kekäläinen [06/Jan 2:52pm -08] wrote: >> dgit is not principally a competitor to git-buildpackage. Indeed dgit >> has git-buildpackage as a dependency! It even has a --gbp mode! > > Anyone reading this casually please note the use of "not _principally_ > a competitor" instead of just "not a competitor". The sentence is true > only by sneaking in the word _principally_, at which point it is no > longer a response to what I wrote but an intentionally twisted version > of it.
The use of 'principally' does not have the effect on the sentence that you think it does. Saying "x is not principally a competitor with y" just means "the purpose of x is not to be a competitor with y". -- Sean Whitton
