[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#996794: ncbi-acc-download: autopkgtest failure with python-biopython 1.79+dfsg-1~0exp0 in experimental

[Nilesh Patra]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:38:27 +0200 =?utf-8?Q?=C3=89tienne?= Mollier <emollier at emlwks999.eu> wrote:
> Note that I think the package
> downloads resources from the Internet during the test at build
> time too, so would might be a serious policy violation, but I
> haven't checked for sure yet.

Well, that'd be odd.
I think internet is forbidden during build anyway, so any downloading
on build won't work.

It is also documented in buildd here[1]

| no network -- most buildds will have no network access available.
| Your package build+test process must not attempt to use the network or assume that any network interface is available.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/buildd

Nilesh

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