[R-pkg-team] Bug#980740: r-bioc-geoquery: flaky autopkgtests failing to download test data

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Andreas

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 11:19, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> so what is you suggestion?  Simply droping the test is possibly
> not the best solution.  Marking it flaky comes to mind.  What
> do you think?

If it were my package, I would probably drop the tests that download
from the internet, or if they were important enough, include some of
the test data in the package.  I find it terribly wasteful downloading
the test data over and over, especially since it seems to be done
twice; once for run-unit-test and again for pkg-r-autopkgtest.

Are we trying to test the functionality of r-bioc-geoquery here, or
the reliability of the autokgtest machine's internet connection?

Regards
Graham