[DRE-maint] Bug#1123467: ruby-chef-utils: FTBFS: Tries to use Internet during build (getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution)

[Norwid Behrnd]

Hello Santiago

Because this bug equally affects ruby-mdl/markdownlint[1] of which I'm a
sponsored maintainer, I reached out to Pirate Praveen (mentioned as uploader)
and the Debian Ruby Team (maintainer).[2]  Lucas Kanashiro indicated it might
suffice to disable / comment-out a couple of actions by ruby-chef-utils.

The issue appeared after the publication of current ruby-mdl/markdownlint and
ruby-chef-utils.  Is it possible the issue became visible because policies how
to build a package were adjusted some time later?

As a somewhat separate route, for now -- and disregarding previous work
documented in the salsa repository leading to Debian's official version
16.12.3-3 and thanks to `gem2deb` -- I was able to build
`ruby-chef-utils_18.9.4-1_all.deb` built from scratch, attached below.  May
you use this one for a test run, and report if the issue you report still
appears?  If using a ruby-chef-utils modernized this way addresses this
problem, I may consider a prepare non-maintainer upload (then based and
including on results already put together by others).

Best regards,

Norwid

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ruby-mdl
[2] root: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2026/01/msg00004.html
[3] https://rubygems.org/gems/chef-utils
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