[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1108781: python-etelemetry: autopkgtest regression: rig.mit.edu stopped serving data?

[Étienne Mollier]

Hi Andreas, Hi Yaroslav,

Paul Gevers, on 2025-07-05:
>  27s E           urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError:
> HTTPSConnectionPool(host='rig.mit.edu', port=443): Max retries exceeded with
> url: /et/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL:
> CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local
> issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1029)')))

python-etelemetry runs tests without declaring that the test
needs internet, which is already a problem in itself.  Tests
needing internet are expected to be skipped when not available,
if I read the code correctly.  I suppose I could just go ahead
and fix the network detection to ensure that we never run tests
needing internet in Debian quality assessment context.  That
would be the easy way out.  That being written, it seems that
the entire purpose of the python-etelemetry package is to access
the remote service that is down since March.  We are now in
November and the service is still down, which questions whether
the package is still useful.  Do you think python-etelemetry
should be removed from the archive?

Have a nice day,  :)
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