* Étienne Mollier <emoll...@debian.org> [250428 23:09]:
About the point of policy violation, the package has d/t/control
restriction "needs-internet" as described below from autopkgtest
documentation README.package-tests.rst:
| needs-internet
| The test needs unrestricted internet access, e.g. to download test data
| that's not shipped as a package, or to test a protocol implementation
| against a test server. Please also see the note about Network access later
| in this document.
I believe that if the autopkgtest should not attempt to reach
the internet from our infrastructure, then maybe such tests
should be skipped, since they are clearly identified as such in
their d/t/control information. That being said, I agree I am
not fan of tests which require connectivity, because as seen
once again, they are fragile and break as soon as the remote
resource is taken down, corrupted, etc.
Having thought about this a minute more: the "needs-internet"
description you are quoting is a technical description of an
autopkgtest feature.
ftp-masters doc is a policy statement.
I *think* the policy statement will have to win over the feature
description. (Obviously we technically could do lots of things, but
then various policies prevent us from doing so in Debian main.)
Chris
