On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 08:14:31PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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.
For a generic lack of /etc/hosts, yeah, it'd be the best solution. In this case, though, I'd rather patch "random text file that's always present" to something else. Thanks for enlightening us about /etc/hosts coming from netbase, though! There's more than just these two bugs where its lack appears. Meow! -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory prices.
