Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#883340: dgit build accesses the internet and fails
when offline."):
> This would just be an alias for existing commands like `debuild -uc -b`
> and `debuild -us -uc -S`, modulo deleting the .changes file. I don't
> think it would be helpful for people trying to understand dgit if there
> were subcommands that didn't actually have anything to do with dgit,
> simply being aliases for non-dgit commands.
Well, yes, except that the dgit *build subcommands are already such
aliases. They exist because debuild etc. mishandle .git and/or
.gitignore, mostly.
> (I'd also like to request that if you do want to add such a command, you
> first apply at least some of the commits in #848931 which touch the
> code for the building commands.)
Certainly. Sorry I have a backlog of patches to apply...
> It might be sufficient just to add a warning "note that this accesses
> the network. If you want to do a purely offline build, invoke
> dpkg-buildpackage or debuild directly" (I wouldn't mention sbuild,
> because by default sbuild also accesses the network to update your
> schroot).
I'm happy to add such a note. But I'd like to hear from Peter.
Ian.
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