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Bug#807168: debian-installer-netboot-images: required resources not declared as build-dependencies (fetches via network)



On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 06:02:48PM +0530, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> debian-installer-netboot-images source package is less than 6k in size.
> Clearly the main part of the resulting binary packages come from
> fetching resources over the network (apparently using wget).
> 
> Debian Policy includes the following in §4.2:
> 
> > If build-time dependencies are specified, it must be possible to build
> > the package and produce working binaries on a system with only
> > essential and build-essential packages installed and also those
> > required to satisfy the build-time relationships (including any
> > implied relationships).
> 
> I can only interpret above as disallowing fetching resources over the
> network using wget.

Is it legal to build a unique arch:all package per architecture?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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