Control: severity -1 normal On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 10:38:08AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 at 11:23:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 03:53:11PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > While seen on a launchpad build, it looks like a missing build dependency, > > > because it tries to access the docbookx.dtd from the network: > > My understanding is that it's currently up to the package being built > (e.g. gobby, not gnome-doc-utils) to build-depend on the appropriate > package to get the DTDs of its XML documentation to be registered > in the xml-core catalog and available without hitting the network: > docbook-xml for docbookx.dtd, rarian-compat for scrollkeeper-omf.dtd, > and possibly others. >...
For the same issue in yelp-tools (#839549), is this also a missing build dependency in aisleriot? > > There is also the related issue that > > /usr/share/gnome-doc-utils/gnome-doc-utils.make > > shouldn't call xmllint without --nonet > > I'm not sure that this would be a good idea to do > unconditionally. gnome-doc-utils.make gets copied into source packages > by gnome-doc-prepare (analogous to autoconf, automake, libtoolize) so > by making this change, we would be imposing Debian policy on upstream > packages that happen to have been prepared by a `make dist` on a Debian > system. > > In Debian, accessing the network during build is forbidden (for good > reason), and we have the xml-core catalog as a way to get DTDs without > doing so. However, when packages whose upstream release happens to have > been made on a Debian system are built on less enlightened distributions > that don't have (or want) that policy, and that don't necessarily even > have an equivalent of xml-core, they still need to build successfully. > > Is there a canonical way to detect that we are in a Debian package build, > that could be used to add --nonet to the xmllint command-line if and only > if this is a Debian package build? The yelp-tools fix of adding it only to "make check" might also apply here? https://git.gnome.org/browse/yelp-tools/commit/?id=71e8c4bd285a576ad3b3c38eb6aa9a2a0a1b24de > smcv cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
