Bug#1016958: epics-base: FTBFS without network access

[Santiago Vila]

El 28/2/23 a las 12:53, Andrius Merkys escribió:
> On a related note, is trying network access to localhost RC?

It's ok if you try to connect to a service started by the build process
itself (please downgrade again if my severity change was wrong).

This is the exact wording in policy:

> For packages in the main archive, 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.

It is not ok if you try to use a service which was already running
in the host machine. Here is a funny example of that:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028163

I guess that according to the spirit of the norm, it's also not
ok to do DNS queries, as that's "communication with the outside world".

Thanks.