Bug#858290: libnet-whois-parser-perl: reversed NO_NETWORK env var breaks autopkgtests

[gregor herrmann]

Control: tag -1 + pending

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:13:50 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

Thanks for the bug report and catching this glitch.

> Since these are automatically-generated autopkgtests for perl modules,
> rather than ones manually declared in debian/test/control, there is no
> opportunity to set the environment variable for test environments where it
> is required.

There is: environment variables for the smoke autopkgtests can be set
via debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env (since pkg-perl-autopkgtest version
0.26).

Cf. https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/autopkgtest.html#smoke (or
/usr/share/doc/pkg-perl-autopkgtest/README.autopkgtest in
pkg-perl-autopkgtest).
 
> I would recommend reverting the environment variable to the previous sense.

I'd rather leave the variable as is, as we (tried to) standardize on
this version across lots of packages.


I've now added the variable to debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env for
the next upload after the stretch release [0], and I'll add a TODO item
to the Debian Perl Team's OpenTask page to review this situation for
all affected packages.


Cheers,
gregor

[0] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-whois-parser-perl.git/commit/?id=7c76859

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