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@@ -7,63 +7,5 @@ Daniel Kobras -- Patches and bugfixes for non-interactive building, and
 Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?er <ilmari@ping.uio.no> -- devfs support.
 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> -- portion of pbuilder-satisfydepends (version dependency check)
 
-History and background of pbuilder
-==================================
-
-Just to note the background of this package.
-
-
-[The Time Before PBuilder]
-
-There were dbuild, which was a shell script to build
-Debian packages from source. Lars Wirzenius wrote that 
-script, and it was good, short, and simple (probably).
-There was nothing like build-depends then (I think), and it was simple.
-It could have been improved, I don't have the source off-hand.
-
-debbuild was probably written by James Troup. I don't know it 
-because I have never seen the actual code, I could only find some
-references to it on the net, and mailing list logs.
-
-sbuild is a perl script to build Debian package from source.
-It parses Build-Dependency, and performs other misc checks,
-and has a lot of hacks to actually get things building,
-including a table of what package to use when virtual packages are
-specified (does it do that still?).
-It supports use of local database for packages which do not 
-have build-dependency. It was written by Ronan Hodek, 
-and I think it was patched and fixed and extended by
-several people. It is part of wanna-build, and used extensively
-in Debian buildd system. I think it was maintained
-mostly by Ryan Murray.
-
-
-[Birth of PBuilder]
-
-wanna-build (sbuild) was quite difficult to set up, and it was 
-never a Debian package. dbuild was something that predated
-Build-Depends.
-
-Building package from source using Build-Depends 
-information within a chroot sounded trivial; and 
-pbuilder was born. It was initially a shell script
-with only a few lines, which called debootstrap
-and chroot and dpkg-buildpackage in the same run,
-but soon, it was decided that's too slow.
-
-Yes, and it took almost an year to get things somewhat 
-right, and in the middle of the process, Debian 3.0
-was released. Yay.
-Debian 3.0 wasn't completely buildable with pbuilder,
-but the amount of packages which are not buildable
-are steadily decreasing. (I hope)
-
-
-[And the second year of its life]
-
-And someone wanted pbuilder to run as not root,
-and User-mode-linux was getting more useful as time passed,
-I've started experimenting with pbuilder-uml.
-
 
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