Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 04 Aug 2018 at 03:28PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > First of all, this isn't something we should allow arbitrary packages to > use. If we have to do this at all, I'd suggest that we explicitly say > that packages should *not* do this in general, and that if they must do > so, any

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

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ian Jackson wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes ("Re: permit access to apt repositories during > builds"): >> My feeling is that this should be an outside-policy carveout, since it >> makes many applications (e.g., analyzing the build graph, especially >> when needed for bootstrapping) no longer

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathan Nieder writes ("Re: permit access to apt repositories during builds"): > Ian Jackson wrote: > > See > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813471#126 > > for a more extended rationale for permitting access to sources > > as well as binaries. > > My feeling is that this

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ian Jackson wrote: > 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-out for that. > > In general I think this should be done by saying that packages may > access

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ian Jackson writes: > 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-out for that. > > In general I think this should be done by saying that packages may > access the apt

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-03 Thread Ian Jackson
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-out for that. In general I think this should be done by saying that