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Re: Packages that download dependencies while building?



On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:35:26PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> Is it within debian policy for a source package to download dependent
> libraries during its build, regardless of whether they're included in
> the resulting .deb or not?

In general packages should not assume network access during their build
process. (I don't know if this is written down anywhere.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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