Bug#885967: Bug#885963: FTBFS: failed to open /etc/hosts

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
>...
> And indeed, in a chroot created with debootstrap --variant=buildd there is
> no such file anymore.  But, I see that the package doesn't actually need
> /etc/hosts but just the testsuite uses it as a random file it -thinks- will
> be always there.  Thanks to our efforts to unbloat the default install, this
> is no longer true.  Thus, you'd need to pick something else.
>...

/etc/hosts is created in the postinst of the netbase package,
so "missing build dependency on netbase" would be another way
to describe the problem.

> Meow!

cu
Adrian

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