Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Think about it: A new upload of mine, with Build-Depends, would only have >created additonal compile-load on the build daemons -- but *without improving >anything* as they can already compile this simple ANSI C package!
And, in addition, everybody trying to keep up with unstable over a slow dialup connection is now going to have to spend hours downloading useless updates to dozens or hundreds of packages (or else more hours trying to work out whether the updates actually made any user-visible improvements). Had Goswin discussed this on debian-devel, I would have told him this. >I think you deserve that we reserve the phrase "to do a Goswin" for >undertakings like this one. <AOL> -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

