[Buildd-tools-devel] Removing strict distribution check

[Andreas Barth]

* Francesco Paolo Lovergine (frankie@debian.org) [041206 19:00]:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:44:08PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> >                 $main::distribution = "unstable" if $main::distribution eq "u";
> > -               die "Bad distribution\n"
> > -                       if !isin($main::distribution, keys(%main::dist_order));
> >         }
> >         elsif (/^-p/ || /^--purge/) {
> >                 if (/^-p(.)/ || /^--purge=(.)/) {

> It seems ok for me.

One of the reasons why I heavily disagree is that you could quite easily
install (or purge) some packages in your normal file tree by a little
spelling error. No, please leave that sanity check there, and use the
dist_order config variable as config variable.


Cheers,
Andi
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