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

[Chris Lamb]

I believe there is a control field for autopkgtest for this purpose. 

gregor herrmann wrote:

> 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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