[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1104275: pique: autopkgtest failure, possibly not allowed in main

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

* Étienne Mollier <emollier at debian.org> [250428 23:09]:
>About the point of policy violation, the package has d/t/control
>restriction "needs-internet" as described below from autopkgtest
>documentation README.package-tests.rst:
>
>| needs-internet
>|     The test needs unrestricted internet access, e.g. to download test data
>|     that's not shipped as a package, or to test a protocol implementation
>|     against a test server. Please also see the note about Network access later
>|     in this document.
>
>I believe that if the autopkgtest should not attempt to reach
>the internet from our infrastructure, then maybe such tests
>should be skipped, since they are clearly identified as such in
>their d/t/control information.  That being said, I agree I am
>not fan of tests which require connectivity, because as seen
>once again, they are fragile and break as soon as the remote
>resource is taken down, corrupted, etc.

I believe you -can- use the Internet, but you cannot download stuff 
from it and use that. I have not checked what the test will do with 
the downloaded data.

Maybe the definition of test-internet is in conflict with 
ftp-masters stance.

Best,
Chris