On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:52:49PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > On 2019-02-19 22:55, Chris Lamb wrote: > > (Naturally, downloading them during the build would not be > > acceptable, but I wonder what the consensus would be on the ethics > > of downloading "contrib"-like data during autopkgtests?) > > It's also a practical matter: Can I run autopkgtests, when my > computer is disconnected from the internet? Can I run them, if > their server is down? Will they always serve exactly the same > files or will I have to deal with random test results?
At the very least, I'd require a "restriction" to be set -- autopkgtest has a system for facets like this, it'd be a good fit here. It explicitly allows downloading packages during test, but that's via apt rather than some random website. > In my case, it's only 3.3 MiB. And it is only in the source package > anyway. So you can just ship it then. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Have you accepted Khorne as your lord and saviour? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
