Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Josh Triplett wrote: > Why don't we make a specific exception for d-i in the short term, in the > hopes that in the long term we'll have a way to handle dependencies on > sources Thanks, that makes a lot of sense to me. I retract my second in message #13, but I'd be happy to review a patch that

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 06:06:22 +0100 Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 4.2.0.1 > Tags: patch > > Apropos of discussion in #813471: > > Paul writes: > > In addition, d-i relies on access to the apt repo for the system. > > I can imagine other uses of that, so I added a carve-ou

Bug#905453: debian-policy: Policy does not include a section on NEWS.Debian files

2018-08-04 Thread Elana Hashman
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.2.0.0 Severity: normal NEWS.Debian files are listed in the "unofficial policy"[1] but not in the official policy. It seems this was proposed in 2002[2], but in 2003, folks were hesitant to "[get] this into policy until enough stuff uses it that we can tell it wor