On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Unfortunately that means that dh-r will no longer be fully functional offline > (querying the local apt cache could be a fallback, but there's no guarantee > that it is up-to-date, even when running unstable).
I now realize that packages are supposed to be buildable without network access, so query the apt cache is the way to go. I'm wondering how similar helpers for other languages solve this problem (maybe they don't, i.e. they just decided to avoid epochs – at least it's what we are doing in the Debian Octave Group). -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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