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

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 08:40:39PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 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.

Oh, good to know - that wasn't obvious from the changelog of this package
that it was being standardized in pkg-perl-autopkgtest.

I'll go ahead with cherry-picking this change into Ubuntu.

Thanks,
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