On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:33:35 +0200, Chris Lamb wrote: > > PS1: I can't say that I'm 100% convinced by this policy change. > This may not be the appropriate venue for a protracted discussion as > it's liable to get hidden but can you briefly outline why?
My experience with perl packages shows that: - internet access doesn't happen during the build itself but in the test suite; - usually in modules whose purpose is to do something net-related; - by disabling them, even if they fail gracefully, in order to follow policy, we effectively castrate the tests, which doesn't seem right from a QA POV. In those cases the argument "builds differently/produces a different binary package/doesn't build reproducibly" with vs. without internet doesn't hold; still, the privacy/phoning-home aspect is true here as well, so I'm ambivalent. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #315: The recent proliferation of Nuclear Testing
