Bug#373807: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#373807: one base.tzg per distribution

[Loïc Minier]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
> >  Your wrappers are full or personal customizations.  I think a lot of
> >  people are customizing their systems like this.
> Exactly why I think we should move the feature upstream.

 Hmm, I didn't express it, but I also wanted to write that people are
 doing /different/ customizations on each site, on each machine; /weird/
 things, like we both do.  But certainly this is one of the most common
 customizations.

> this is up to you.

 I call it too hard and risky for now and for me, so I wont touch it
 myself right now.  O:-)

> >  The most flexible approach remains (IMO) the current one where this is
> >  simply configurable.
> pbuilder has so many complexities that I just would not call it
> simply configurable; you can do so much wrong. Even just command
> line handling is a major PITA at times.

 It's already complex, and yet this bug is about a new feature to remove
 some complexity, but also to add some!  :-)

   Thanks for discussion,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>