On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 07:33:13PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > Short of communicating with a remote service, I'm not sure how we can > > get more meaningful functional test coverage in this package, but it > > would be nice to do so. > > There is also another "Restrictions: needs-internet" which might be > useful for you. > Please check > https://sources.debian.org/data/main/a/autopkgtest/5.14/doc/README.package-tests.rst > which has a section for "Network access". That says: > "But for many packages their main purpose is to interact with remote > web services and thus their testing should actually cover those too, > to ensure that the distribution package keeps working with their > corresponding web service.".
Yeah, the bigger issue there is not network access but authentication credentials. If there's a mechanism to allow us to provide credentials in the test environment with reasonable expectations of security, then we'd be very much interested in using that. I haven't found evidence of such support in Debian's CI infrastructure, though. noah
