On Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:13:57 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> 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.
Is the lack of /etc/hosts also a "problem" for the buildd chroots used for stretch and jessie? (I don't know how they get created.) I.e. should we fix this bug there as well or can we tag it sid+buster? Andreas