Package: libspork-perl Version: 0.20-1 Severity: serious Justification: pseudo-FTBFS (causes extremely long builds) + possible copyright issues Tags: patch
Hi, During a rebuild of all packages in etch, I discovered that your package required internet access during the build. Quoting #393900: Accessing the network during build is bad for these reasons: - It's a privacy concern: without being asked, some information about the system is being sent to a remote host; - It should be possible to autobuild the package on a buildd with no network access. - The test has a high probability to fail lateron because of the referenced host (temporarily) disappearing. It seems to call wget to download http://search.cpan.org/s/img/cpan_banner.png (this might raise copyright issues as well). If you don't want to make it stop downloading stuff from the internet during the build, please at least consider making it fail much faster (wget retries 20 times, with a long timeout, by default) by setting --tries and --timeout in your wget call. For example, use: wget --tries=2 --timeout=30 http://search.cpan.org/s/img/cpan_banner.png tshark dump: 17.167580 10.69.1.32 -> 10.69.7.225 DNS Standard query AAAA search.cpan.org 17.167731 10.69.7.225 -> 10.69.1.32 DNS Standard query response CNAME cpansearch.perl.org 17.168071 10.69.1.32 -> 10.69.7.225 DNS Standard query A search.cpan.org 17.168234 10.69.7.225 -> 10.69.1.32 DNS Standard query response CNAME cpansearch.perl.org A 84.45.68.23 17.168421 10.69.1.32 -> 84.45.68.23 TCP 41119 > www [SYN] Seq=0 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=6881719 TSER=0 WS=7 20.169029 10.69.1.32 -> 84.45.68.23 TCP 41119 > www [SYN] Seq=0 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=6882469 TSER=0 WS=7 Thank you, About the archive rebuilt: The rebuilt was done on about 60 AMD64 nodes of the Grid'5000 platform, using a chroot containing an etch i386 environment (not unstable). Internet was not accessible from the build nodes. About Grid'5000: The Grid'5000 project aims at building a highly reconfigurable experimental Grid platform gathering 9 sites and featuring a total of 5000 CPUs. Its main purpose is to serve as an experimental testbed for research in Grid Computing. To learn more about Grid'5000, read https://www.grid5000.fr/ -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
