New version of bioperl fails some test - did I understood debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-skip correctly?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

I updated bioperl in Git[1] to the just released new upstream version.
Since I wanted to exclude tests that try to access remote hosts I did

$ git diff HEAD^
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d1cb31a..a237b8b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-bioperl (1.7.3-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+bioperl (1.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Drop broken uversionmangle from watch file
   * New upstream version
   * debhelper 12
   * Standards-Version: 4.3.0
   * Build-Depends: libyaml-perl, libtest-requiresinternet-perl
+  * Skip t/Root/HTTPget.t in test suite
 
- -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:35:06 +0100
+ -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:43:46 +0100
 
 bioperl (1.7.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-skip b/debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-skip
index 382cead..66593b1 100644
--- a/debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-skip
+++ b/debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-skip
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 t/Perl.t
 t/Species.t
+t/Root/HTTPget.t


but the test result contains (besides some other failures that need further
investigation):


Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/Root/HTTPget.t                  (Wstat: 2304 Tests: 29 Failed: 9)
  Failed tests:  3-5, 10-12, 17-19
  Non-zero exit status: 9


How comes that t/Root/HTTPget.t is executed despite I adde it to
debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-skip ?

Kind regards

       Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bioperl

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