On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > To be honest, I think the first thing to do would be fixing the test > suites to skip tests which fail due to internet connection being > unavailable. Well, there would still be question how to reliably > determine that...
For some packages, e.g. geocode-glib, which is basically a library for calling a particular web service from C code, running the test suite without network access is almost pointless. (Unless, of course, you feel like implementing a clone of that web service just to run the test suite.) I don't like tests that need network access, but in a few cases, they are the only to automatically verify that a package works. -Alexandre.
