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On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 01:00:14PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Jérémy Lal dijo [Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 07:46:43PM +0200]:
It might be a good idea to make policy more explicit about downloads during build.
I completely agree. This led me to look at #813471 ("network access to
the loopback device should be allowed"), and... Well, it seems to set
the stage to the issue we are tackling now: #813471 is opened as a
reaction against #770016 ("Clarify network access for building
packages in main").
I want to clarify that I never intended the prohibition of network access
to apply to the loopback device, and I expect the other seconders to
think the same, given the rationale for the change.
To my mind, using the loop backdevice is not performing network access.
Maybe a better wording can be suggested, but if we do not want policy
to read like legalese, we need to accept minor ambiguities in wording
that can be resolved from the rationale.
Cheers,
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