Re: autopkgtest requiring large data sets (pique, hinge)

[Tony Travis <tony.travis@minke-informatics.co.uk>]

On 21/12/2021 13:33, Lance Lin wrote:
> Debian Medical Team,
>
> I have started looking at adding autopkgtest suites for a variety of packages. Two of the packages (hinge, pique) require very large data sets to run their included examples. The sizes are several GB. It also looks like they may be graphical in nature.
>
>
> Is it permissible for autopkgtest suites to download such large amounts of data from the internet? Or should they be included in the repo?
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> If so, I am happy to continue to look at these packages to include some basic level of testing.
>
> Thank you!
>
> As I don't have direct domain knowledge of the technology
> Lance Lin <lqi254@protonmail.com>
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Hi, Lance.

I'm the author of PIQUE and I included a "test" folder with a Makefile 
in it that downloads an example dataset. The data is not in the repo.

HTH,

  Tony.

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