Bug#387908: ftbfs: 500_ping_icmp fails on VServer

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:14:46PM +0100, Max Kellermann wrote:
 
> I still don't think that any package should require networking to be
> set up or even enabled in the kernel to build from source.
> 
> Note that perl does not even build-depend on ifupdown.  A bare Debian
> system with all build dependencies installed (and nothing else) will
> not be able to build perl.

There's lots of packages in the archive that don't meet your condition,
see for example libwww-perl, libtest-www-mechanize-perl, libembperl-perl,
dulwich, libhttp-server-simple-perl, and libapache2-mod-perl2.

I think you should try to drive this at the level of the Debian Policy
rather than file bugs against individual packages. The current practice is
clearly that requiring the loopback interface is acceptable but requiring
general network connectivity isn't.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org