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Re: Bug#761636: RFS: raceintospace/1.1+dfsg1-1 [ITP]



On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Dariusz Dwornikowski
<dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl> wrote:
> On 16.09.14 01:05:05, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> Hi Dariusz,
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Dariusz Dwornikowski
>> <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl> wrote:
>> > Package: sponsorship-requests
>> > Severity: wishlist
>> >
>> >   Dear mentors,
>> >
>> >   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "raceintospace"
>> >
>> >  * Package name    : raceintospace
>> >    Version         : 1.1+dfsg1-1
>> >    Upstream Author : Michael K McCarty <mkmccarty@raceintospace.org>
>> >                      Pace Willisson <pace@alum.mit.edu>
>> >                      Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz <drvee@users.sf.net>
>> >                      Will Glynn <delta407@lerfjhax.com>
>> >  * URL             : http://www.raceintospace.org/
>> >  * License         : GPL-2+
>> >    Section         : games
>> >
>> >   It builds those binary packages:
>> >
>> >     raceintospace - free software version of the Liftoff! board game
>> >  raceintospace-data - free software version of the Liftoff! board game - data file
>> >
>> >   To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:
>> >
>> >   http://mentors.debian.net/package/raceintospace
>> >
>> >   Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
>> >
>> >     dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/raceintospace/raceintospace_1.1+dfsg1-1.dsc
>> >
>> >   or go directly to the VCS:
>> >   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/raceintospace.git
>> >
>> >   More information about raceintospace can be obtained from http://www.raceintospace.org/
>> >
>> >
>> >   This is the initial release:
>> >
>> >   * Initial release (Closes: #748321)
>>
>> I recall reviewing this several months back; I haven't looked at it
>> again yet, but I remember that there were a number of issues with the
>> package at the time that were left unfixed, most notably that the
>> build system tries to fetch remote resources during the build itself.
>> Has this since been fixed?
>
> It does not try to fetch anymore if the dependencies are fulffiled.
> Now, with the new patch they are. I could completely patch the system
> to even not try when there are no deps presents (some weirdo archs
> maybe ).

Yes, the build system should _never_ try to fetch any remote resource.
If build deps are unsatisfied, the result should be a FTBFS, not an
attempt to fetch the missing deps during the build itself; patch the
build system if you must in order to ensure this.

Regards,
Vincent


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