The latest upload of libnet-whois-parser-perl reverses the sense of the
environment variable for network tests, from opt-in (CONNECTED_TO_NET=1) to
opt-out (NO_NETWORK=1).

This works fine for Debian autobuilders since you set the variable
explicitly in debian/rules.  And it works fine on Debian's autopkgtest
infrastructure, because apparently they allow network there.  But it breaks
on Ubuntu's autopkgtest infrastructure, which uses the same network policy
as the autobuilders:

http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/libn/libnet-whois-parser-perl/zesty/amd64

Since these are automatically-generated autopkgtests for perl modules,
rather than ones manually declared in debian/test/control, there is no
opportunity to set the environment variable for test environments where it
is required.

I would recommend reverting the environment variable to the previous sense.

tag 858290 + pending
thanks

Some bugs in the libnet-whois-parser-perl package are closed in
revision 7c76859b7e36b18e9ea03f0774f1d0c6da75bbeb in branch 'master'
by gregor herrmann

The full diff can be seen at
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-whois-parser-perl.git/commit/?id=7c76859

Commit message:

    Set NO_NETWORK=1 in debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env

    to disable network tests also during autokpgtests.

    Thanks: Steve Langasek for the bug report.
    Closes: #858290

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:13:50 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

Thanks for the bug report and catching this glitch.
via debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env (since pkg-perl-autopkgtest version
0.26).

Cf. https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/autopkgtest.html#smoke (or
/usr/share/doc/pkg-perl-autopkgtest/README.autopkgtest in
pkg-perl-autopkgtest).

I'd rather leave the variable as is, as we (tried to) standardize on
this version across lots of packages.


I've now added the variable to debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env for
the next upload after the stretch release [0], and I'll add a TODO item
to the Debian Perl Team's OpenTask page to review this situation for
all affected packages.


Cheers,
gregor

[0] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-whois-parser-perl.git/commit/?id=7c76859

tag 858290 + pending
thanks

Some bugs in the libnet-whois-parser-perl package are closed in
revision 7c76859b7e36b18e9ea03f0774f1d0c6da75bbeb in branch 'master'
by gregor herrmann

The full diff can be seen at
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-whois-parser-perl.git/commit/?id=7c76859

Commit message:

    Set NO_NETWORK=1 in debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env

    to disable network tests also during autokpgtests.

    Thanks: Steve Langasek for the bug report.
    Closes: #858290

Oh, good to know - that wasn't obvious from the changelog of this package
that it was being standardized in pkg-perl-autopkgtest.

I'll go ahead with cherry-picking this change into Ubuntu.

Thanks,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libnet-whois-parser-perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 858290@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> (supplier of updated libnet-whois-parser-perl package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:11:09 +0100
Source: libnet-whois-parser-perl
Architecture: source
Version: 0.08-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>
Closes: 858290
Changes:
 libnet-whois-parser-perl (0.08-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ gregor herrmann ]
   * Remove Jotam Jr. Trejo from Uploaders. Thanks for your work!
   * Set NO_NETWORK=1 in debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env to disable network
     tests also during autokpgtests.
     Thanks to Steve Langasek for the bug report. (Closes: #858290)
 .
   [ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
   * Update Vcs-* headers for switch to salsa.debian.org
 .
   [ gregor herrmann ]
   * debian/watch: use uscan version 4.
 .
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Remove constraints unnecessary since stretch:
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