On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: >... > And indeed, in a chroot created with debootstrap --variant=buildd there is > no such file anymore. But, I see that the package doesn't actually need > /etc/hosts but just the testsuite uses it as a random file it -thinks- will > be always there. Thanks to our efforts to unbloat the default install, this > is no longer true. Thus, you'd need to pick something else. >...
/etc/hosts is created in the postinst of the netbase package, so "missing build dependency on netbase" would be another way to describe the problem. > Meow! cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed