Re: Bug#759762: ITP: libz-mingw-w64 -- compression library (targeting Windows)

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:43:20PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>, 2014-08-31, 12:09:
> >>Packages must mot access outside world at the build time.
> >
> >This is not enforced yet, though,
> 
> It's now enforced in pbuilder. Also in Jakub's sbuild. :-P
> I believe that it's indeed not enforced on buildds, which is a shame.

Just one of common annoyances that causes FTBFS and slows down things:
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loading intersphinx inventory from http://docs.python.org/objects.inv...
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In my ongoing armhf archive rebuild (88% complete) it happened 31 times so
far.  For some reason, on the very same machine with the same configuration,
it sometimes hangs until sbuild timeouts, yet it's stable for repeats of
the same package:
.-=[ deap_1.0.1-1
Running Sphinx v1.2.2
loading pickled environment... not yet created
loading intersphinx inventory from http://docs.python.org/objects.inv...
make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [html] Terminated
Makefile:34: recipe for target 'html' failed
Build killed with signal TERM after 300 minutes of inactivity
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and sometimes succeeds:
.-=[ lava-server_2014.06.02.17-2
Running Sphinx v1.2.2
loading pickled environment... not yet created
loading intersphinx inventory from http://docs.python.org/objects.inv...
WARNING: intersphinx inventory 'http://docs.python.org/objects.inv' not
fetchable due to <class 'urllib2.URLError'>: <urlopen error [Errno 111]
Connection refused>
[...]
Status: successful
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So, what's the policy here?  Should I file bugs just for packages where
there's a FTBFS (without regard that for _some_ configuration elsewhere
it might build), or for all packages whose logs include this string?

Also, should we detect all other attempts to contact the outside network,
and swat such builds with extreme prejudice?

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