Re: Minified javascripts in packages
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:06:53AM +1000, Riley Baird wrote:
>> What if that website goes down one day?
>
> Hmm. I thought a Debian package should not require an internet
> connection to be built from source, but in quickly scanning the debian
> policy manual and the debian new maintainers guide I didn't see this
> rule mentioned specifically.
>
> Is this a rule or just a very strong preference?
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main
policy section 2.2.1
"packages in main must not require or recommend a package outside of
main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare
a "Pre-Depends", "Depends", "Recommends", "Build-Depends", or
"Build-Depends-Indep" relationship on a non-main package),"
this also includes resources over the internet.
also when building a package you should not expect a working
connection on the buildd (and some debian buildds build without
connection, indeed, i was bite by that once)
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