Hello Mattia, On Fri 12 Oct 2018 at 01:45PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > I hereby disagree with this approach. > I think that if we were going this way, build-essential should just > start depending on netbase instead. > > Changing the Policy wording to say that build-essential should also > provide networking base stuff it's probably fine though. Sorry, what exactly is it you are fine with? > 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. Fair enough. > Talking about the proposed wording: the text within parenthesis mentions > "versioned build-dependency", but the package it's talking about > (netbase, I suspect) it's only mentioned in the footnote, which is an > issue in my book. What it means is that you need a versioned b-d on netbase if you need a really new service. Just like you might need a versioned b-d on something else in build-essential if you need particular new features. > 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. Cool, thank you. -- Sean Whitton
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