* Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, 2013-06-18, 08:33:
Have you considered running the tests with autopkgtest ? http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/Then, you can either download the data or install it from a separate data package.
No, you can't assume that Internet connectivity will be available to your tests. There's no such guarantee.
(Leaving aside privacy concerns for now...) -- Jakub Wilk