Bug#831993: libcommons-codec-java: accesses the internet during build

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:19:46 +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:

> > - by disabling them, even if they fail gracefully, in order to follow
> >   policy, we effectively castrate the tests, which doesn't seem right
> >   from a QA POV.
> Mm, agreed. Moving these tests to the autopkgtest infrastructure is one
> fix but it's not "that" clean a solution..

Well, right, autopkgtest is the next question. If a test is forbidden
to leak to external parties the fact that it's being run during
build, the same is probably true by analogy for autopkgtests?

(Recently I disabled the same tests for both build + autopkgtests.)


Cheers,
gregor

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