On February 8, 2019 7:59:10 PM EST, Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> wrote:
>> It looks like a network access problem. The whole point of this
>> package is to check online sources, so it's hard to test it without
>> network access. I was able to build it just fine in my schroot, but I
>> may have to disable the tests so the buildds can operate...
>
>If you have to do that, please do so.
fair enough
> Packages must not use the
>network during the build, other than installing the build-dependencies.
>This is actually written in Release Policy.
>
>Think about somebody building packages in a desert island and the
>package failing because it can't connect to the outside world.
>
>However, I don't deliberately disable network access in my
>autobuilders, so if just by looking at my build log you remembered
>that your package was doing network access, that's a good thing anyway
>:-)
>
>[ While we are at it, please try uploading in source-only form
> (dpkg-buildpackage -S). It helps me a lot by preventing certain kind
> of bugs to propagate to testing (where I usually do my test builds).
> This also creates and keeps archived official build logs for the "all"
> architecture ].
>
I'm with you. I always do so whenever I can, but this was the first upload and
needed to be a binary upload to go through NEW...
regards
Afif
