Bug#904248: Beginnings of a patch to add netbase to build-essential
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 13:45:06 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On the note of /etc/hosts, I'm fixing the original bug rised by Simon
> McVittie (that was triggered by tests.reproducible-builds.org not
> resolving localhost) within pbuilder (#905307) btw.
I think this is a better solution to my original bug report. If my unit
tests need to talk to a service listening on localhost (as allowed by
Policy already) then let them resolve localhost: no more, no less.
> I think we also need a wider request for /etc/services and
> /etc/protocols. Till now I only heard Ian asking for it, so I believe
> there needs to be a wider request.
I too am not so sure that these files are something that the
build-essential set should guarantee. I think resolvability of localhost
falls into the same sort of "always true on a sane system" guarantees
as the lo device having 127.0.0.1 assigned to it, but I'm a lot less
sure that "freeciv can be resolved to port 5556" is part of a minimal
reasonable system. (Admittedly, I'm deliberately choosing a slightly
ridiculous example to make a point, and a lot of what's in /etc/services
is more reasonable.)
smcv
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