[Python-modules-team] Bug#830568: python-asyncssh: accesses the internet during build

Vincent Bernat bernat at debian.org
Sat Sep 3 20:43:20 UTC 2016


 ❦  3 septembre 2016 21:22 CEST, Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> :

>> The policy says "may not". I am not a native speaker, but for me, this
>> is not like "must not". Since you are a native speaker, I think you know
>> better: is it optional or not?
>
> May I suggest an alternative approach…? We have two cases here:
>
>  a) Debian Policy states it is a bug in python-asyncssh.
>
>  b) Debian Policy does not state it is a bug python-asyncssh.
>
> In both cases it would be perfectly legitimate to continue discussing
> whether it *should* be a bug in python-asyncssh.
>
> In other words, tedious haggling over the wording and intention of a
> document neither of us wrote is unproductive to the goal of improving
> Debian. So, let's just skip all of that.

Well, what you think is productive/improvement, I think this is a waste
of time. Let's say I disable the test.  Next release, I will have to
rebase the patch. Next release, upstream will have added a test, I don't
notice it, you'll file another bug, another upload to fix that. Upstream
may notice that I am crippling its test suite. I'll have to
explain. They may or may not understand. I don't want to do all that.

The time I can spend on Debian is limited. If your bug was wishlist, I
would just ignore it. It is severity serious and I have to handle
it. Maybe it is legitimate. Maybe not. That's why I would have feeled
more comfortable if this was discussed on debian-devel at .
-- 
There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of
paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
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