Bug#904248: Beginnings of a patch to add netbase to build-essential

[Holger Levsen]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 07:06:45PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Here is the complete patch, for which I am seeking seconds:
> 
> diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
> index 9e7d79c..011893c 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-source.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
> @@ -40,9 +40,25 @@ example, if building a package requires a certain 
> compiler, then the
>  compiler should be specified as a build-time dependency.
> 
>  It is not necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships on a
> -minimal set of packages that are always needed to compile, link and put
> -in a Debian package a standard "Hello World!" program written in C or
> -C++. The required packages are called *build-essential*, and an
> +minimal set of packages that are always needed
> +
> +- to compile, link and put in a Debian package a standard "Hello
> +  World!"  program written in C or C++;
> +
> +- for the package build to resolve the system hostname to a
> +  fully-qualified domain name using the C standard library; and
> +
> +- for the package build to look up longstanding and conventionally
> +  available service and protocol names and numbers, either by directly
> +  reading /etc/services and /etc/protocols, or by using the
> +  corresponding functions from the C standard library. [#]_
> +
> +  (If the package needs to look up a more recent service or protocol,
> +  and certainly if the service or protocol was not listed in these
> +  files in the package's targeted Debian releases, an appropriate
> +  versioned build-dependency is needed.)
> +
> +The required packages are called *build-essential*, and an
>  informational list can be found in
>  ``/usr/share/doc/build-essential/list`` (which is contained in the
>  ``build-essential`` package).  [#]_
> @@ -757,6 +773,10 @@ according to this convention, the C source code of an 
> executable
>  ``debian/missing-sources/checksum/util.c``.
> 
>  .. [#]
> +   The functionality described in these last two list items is
> +   provided by the "netbase" package at the time of writing.
> +
> +.. [#]

seconded, thanks.


-- 
cheers,
        Holger

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