Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Monday, den 28. November 2011: > Alexander Wirt <formo...@debian.org> writes: > > > Jon Dowland schrieb am Montag, den 28. November 2011: > > > >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:54:57PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > >> > And I still like the "never touch a running system" approach. If dpatch > >> > works > >> > without problems, why deprecate it? > >> > >> One reason is that the surface area of Debian development tools is too > >> large > >> and daunting for newcomers. When alternatives for a given tool exist which > >> are > >> relevant and known outside the Debian eco system and there might be some > >> practical use for learning those skills in other contexts, IMHO > >> Debian-specific > >> solutions should need a strong argument *for* to keep, rather than > >> *against* to > >> remove. > > imho it is that range of development tools that make us strong. I packaged > > for nearly every package system in the past and it is mainly the great eco > > system of debian specific tools that make debian just a joy to package. > > > > Alex > > and then you need to fix a build failure somewhere deep down in cdbs. :) such things happen and this may also happen for debhelper, dpkg, apt, and so on.
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