Bug#983239: libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl: (autopkg)test failures when network is available
Étienne Mollier writes:
> I have been looking in the issue below in the package
> libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl. If I understood correctly, the main
> point of the package is to rely on resources made available on
> the Internet.
I'm not sure I've been personally involved with this package, but that's
my understanding as well.
> a perhaps magic index to refer to human genome, but maybe it is
> a "well known index".)
Per [1], taxonomic ID *numbers* are stable in general, but the
associated *names* occasionally change to reflect improved
understandings of the underlying science. AFAICT from [2] (as linked
from [3]), this change is correct and legitimate; moreover, it looks
like 'Actinobacteria' should now appear in $n->common_names, if anyone
wants to verify that.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7408187/
[2] https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003920
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=1760&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
> In any case, I though upstream would be interested, so I took
> the liberty to open an issue in their VCS.
Thanks!
gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> writes:
> I still think that NO_NETWORK_TESTING=1 should be set in debian/rules
> to make sure there's no internet access attempted during the build,
> as that is a policy violation.
Right, we're just discussing what to do about the autopkgtest.
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