Re: Downloading of test data

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it> writes:

> the url of the product to be downloaded for test is
>
> http://earth.esa.int/services/sample_products/meris/LRC/L2/MER_LRC_2PTGMV20000620_104318_00000104X000_00000_00000_0001.N1.gz

Thanks.

> Uhm, how much is it important to test the package at build time?

That's partly a decision for the package maintainer in each case.

There is some movement, especially in the Debian Python community, to
standardise running a package's automated tests at build time; but
there's certainly no requirement that it be done.

> In this case I'm a little reluctant to include *that* data in debian
> archive (after all the upstream package is distributed without it).

Don't be. That's not a reason to avoid distributing it in Debian, if
it's useful overall to Debian recipients to do so.

The question remains about getting a free-software license to do so, but
you're aware of that now.

> Anyway if testing the package at build time is considered very
> important I can try to contact ESA and ask for more details about
> license terms for re-distribution.

Thank you for your efforts to improve Debian and free software.

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Ben Finney