Debian Bug report logs - #1104764
dpkg: Add allownetworktest to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

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Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <[email protected]>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Pirate Praveen <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 21:03:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version dpkg/1.22.18

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Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 03:48:16 +0200
From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
To: Pirate Praveen <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#1104764: dpkg: Add allownetworktest to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
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Hi!

On Tue, 2025-05-06 at 02:31:31 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.22.18
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

> As a followup to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104643#39
> please add 'allownetworktest' as a supported option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. So
> we can run tests that need internet access from salsa ci but disabled by
> default.

I suspect this report has been misdirected, because dpkg only has
explicit support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS that it can act on (see for
example dpkg-buildpackage(1) or dpkg-buildflags(1)). In this case I
don't think there's anything that dpkg can do about this new option?

I think this might be more appropriate as a Debian policy report,
looking for consensus on documenting this usage, if people agree with
it. I'd also like to mention that it might be worth diverging from
existing practice of tucking multiple words together with no
separators, which I've considered to be a non-ideal practice for a
while (where I think I might have made it worse when adding support
for new options/keywords from the original no<something> pattern).

Thanks,
Guillem

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