[R-pkg-team] Bug#1111759: r-bioc-genomeinfodb autopkgtest fail

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 06:17:27PM +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> The upstream commit log suggests that this was a change on the server that
> this test connects to, and that this might happen quite often: 1.45.8,
> 1.45.10 and 1.45.11 are all plausibly relevant.
> https://github.com/Bioconductor/GenomeInfoDb/commits/devel/

Is this only a test breakage, or is the package itself also broken?

Is/Should r-bioc-genomeinfodbdata be used for tests?

I'm asking these stupid questions, since a frequently broken test should 
be dropped while a test indicating actual breakage relevant for the 
package would be useful (but if it breaks frequently the package might
not be suitable for stable releases).

According to debian/changelog there once was a needs-internet 
autopkgtest restriction, which seems to have gotten lost at
some point. This needs fixing if the test stays and needs
internet access.

cu
Adrian