Bug#770016: Clarify network access for building packages in main
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 23/11/14 at 21:13 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Was there a lot of failure ?
>
> No
>
> > What severity did you use for the bug report ?
>
> serious
So in practice, this is already handled as a RC bug. Good.
> > Are you in favor of the patch above ?
>
> In general, yes.
So are you willing to second it ?
> I wonder if it should be turned into "the package must not rely on
> external access network to build correctly". A package that checks if
> network access is available, and run more tests if it's the case, could
> be fine.
This would violate the principle of least surprise.
A package might FTBFS in some circumstance, and not in another.
We can aways add exceptions later.
I would like to move on with this issue, and welcome seconds.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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