Bug#904248: Beginnings of a patch to add netbase to build-essential
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 02:15:03PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:45:06 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> As a data point: I've seen interesting test failures that were caused
> by a missing /etc/{services,protocols}, which took me some time to
> find out the cause. Since I became aware of the issue, trying to add
> netbase as a build dependency happens much faster :)
>
> In general I have no strong opinion but having netbase in
> build-essential would for sure have saved me and probably others some
> time.
What about the fact that these files are conffiles ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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