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and subject line Re: Bug#1104764: dpkg: Add allownetworktest to
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.22.18
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
As a followup to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104643#39
please add 'allownetworktest' as a supported option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. So
we can run tests that need internet access from salsa ci but disabled by
default.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.25-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-6
ii libc6 2.41-7
ii liblzma5 5.8.1-1
ii libmd0 1.1.0-2+b1
ii libselinux1 3.8.1-1
ii libzstd1 1.5.7+dfsg-1
ii tar 1.35+dfsg-3.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 3.0.1
pn debsig-verify <none>
-- no debconf information
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Hi!
On Tue, 2025-05-06 at 03:48:16 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-05-06 at 02:31:31 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.22.18
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> > As a followup to
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104643#39
> > please add 'allownetworktest' as a supported option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
> > So
> > we can run tests that need internet access from salsa ci but disabled by
> > default.
>
> I suspect this report has been misdirected, because dpkg only has
> explicit support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS that it can act on (see for
> example dpkg-buildpackage(1) or dpkg-buildflags(1)). In this case I
> don't think there's anything that dpkg can do about this new option?
>
> I think this might be more appropriate as a Debian policy report,
> looking for consensus on documenting this usage, if people agree with
> it. I'd also like to mention that it might be worth diverging from
> existing practice of tucking multiple words together with no
> separators, which I've considered to be a non-ideal practice for a
> while (where I think I might have made it worse when adding support
> for new options/keywords from the original no<something> pattern).
Given the above, I'm going to be closing this report.
Thanks,
Guillem
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