On 2024-04-04 22:38, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 01:22:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'm not sure what I think about that. We have a general escape hatch > > already for non-free packages in Policy 2.2.3 that says they may not fully > > comply with Policy, which may be sufficient. > > But precisely, we _do_ want non-free packages that are built on the > autobuilders > to comply with this requirement. So we do not want 2.2.3 to apply in that > specific case. It seems cleaner to say that the requirement only apply if > Autobuild: yes is declared.
If we go that route, here is a proposed alternative patch: --- a/policy/ch-source.rst +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst @@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ For example, the build target should pass ``--disable-silent-rules`` to any configure scripts. See also :ref:`s-binaries`. -For packages in the main archive, required targets must not attempt +Except for packages in the non-free archive with the ``Autobuild`` +control field unset or set to ``no``, required targets must not attempt network access, except, via the loopback interface, to services on the build host that have been started by the build. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://aurel32.net
