xvidcore broken - ok to use CDBS?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:52:05PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>Although I have not been asked directly, I feel free to respond.

sure :-)


>Am 13.09.2010 13:04, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
>>* I will no longer offer my help with issues that could be solved
>>using either short-form dh or CDBS - except when CDBS is already used.
>
>But I still fail to understand this point. If for example a package 
>using short-form dh7 in debian/rules needs a patch to the source or 
>is missing a file reference in debian/foo.install, what keeps you 
>from contributing?

Nothing.

Neither examples you present here seem related to short-form dh or CDBS.


>>* I will continue to offer my help with issues unrelated to short-form
>>dh or CDBS.
>
>This is again reasonable and appreciated, but IMHO still 
>contradictory to your previous point.

How so?

First I talk about issues related to short-form dh or CDBS.  Then about 
issues unrelated to them.

What is contradictory about that?

Could someone perhaps suggest me a better way of expressing this 
standpoint of mine, to avoid similar misunderstanding another time in 
another context?


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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