Package: choose-mirror Version: 2.08 Severity: serious Justification: Requiring network access during build causes lots of problems
Hi, Building choose-mirror seems to require network access, since it retrieves a file found on cvs.d.o: if [ "$ONLINE" != n ]; then \ if wget -nv 'http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=webwml&content-type=text/plain' -O - > Mirrors.masterlist.new && \ test -s Mirrors.masterlist.new; then \ mv Mirrors.masterlist.new Mirrors.masterlist; \ else \ rm -f Mirrors.masterlist.new; \ fi; \ fi Quoting from #393900 (against libwww-myspace-perl): Accessing the network during build is bad for these reasons: - It's a privacy concern: without being asked, some information about the system is being sent to a remote host; - It should be possible to autobuild the package on a buildd with no network access. - The test has a high probability to fail lateron because of the referenced host (temporarily) disappearing. Making ONLINE default to "n" would probably solve the problem. Thank you, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
