Bug#646318: Related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363193

[Philip Wyett]

On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 19:14 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Philip Wyett dixit:
> 
> >Are we likely to get an update soon to fix this issue of pbuilder
> >in squeeze not supporting architecture wildcards?
> 
> Not speaking for the maintainer or the SRM, but I don’t think this
> falls under the things fixed in a stable update; besides, developers
> usually use, and probably should, the most current tools anyway.
> (I think not using debootstrap from sid will also fail you.)
> 

If we go by what it says for stable at:

http://release.debian.org/

"Fast response for security updates. Minor updates include security and
other important fixes only. Major updates are sourced from testing, and
are infrequent, but large."

I think the fact pbuilder does not work correctly in squeeze with a
patch available qualifies as an important fix and should be released as
an update as soon as possible.

As a side note. I do use the latest for development and future. But I
never release unless it works on stable. Users use and prefer stable
software, not a game of tweak/hack with unstable software and hope it
works.

Regards

Phil

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