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Then we should change the documentation to state the actual policy...

(Found this after https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2020/04/threads.html#00074 )

--- a/doc/README.package-tests.rst
+++ b/doc/README.package-tests.rst
@@ -435,6 +435,10 @@ services and thus their testing should actually cover those too, to
 ensure that the distribution package keeps working with their
 corresponding web service.

+In Debian, tests are not allowed to execute code they download.
+In particular, tests must not use external repositories to depend on
+software (as opposed to data) that is not in Debian.
+
 Debian's production CI infrastructure allows unrestricted network
 access, in Ubuntu's infrastructure access to sites other than
 `*.ubuntu.com` and `*.launchpad.net` happens via a proxy (limited to

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