Bug#813471: Seeking seconds for patch to permit some network access to localhost

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 05:19:14PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> control: tag -1 +patch
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a patch, for which I am seeking seconds, that tries to capture
> the points raised by Osamu, Guillem and Paul without getting into
> legalese -- Bill has a point.  In particular, I think we can trust
> package maintainers to interpret "started by the build" sensibly.
> 
> Discussion by Ian and Simon cloned into a separate bug and continued
> there.  Gunnar's discussion should be a separate bug, so setting it
> aside for now.
> 
> > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
> > index 9e7d79c..34c90b3 100644
> > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst
> > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
> > @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ non-interactive. It also follows that any target that these targets
> >  depend on must also be non-interactive.
> >  
> >  For packages in the main archive, no required targets may attempt
> > -network access.
> > +network access, except to services on the build host that have been
> > +started by the build, via the loopback interface.
> >  
> >  The targets are as follows:
> >  


Looks good to me.

Seconded

Osamu