On 2019-02-19 22:55, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dumb question: have you tried consulting upstream?
Not yet. If this question has been clarified inside Debian before, I'm reluctant pestering upstream again. I know, that some upstreams get shirty about our insistence on such matters. But if not, I'll contact upstream of course. > (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? Maybe we don't need a huge amount of test data, i.e. not the full set that is used by upstream. A small subset might be sufficient for at least some packages. In my case, it's only 3.3 MiB. And it is only in the source package anyway. Cheers
