Dear Maintainer,

It has been noticed that the autopkgtest in python-socksipy is running a
trivial command that does not provide significant test coverage:

	- python3 -c "import socks ; print(socks.__version__)"

Executing that command is considered to be a trivial test, which
does not provide significant coverage for a package as a whole.
But these tests are a useful way to detect regressions in dependencies
and prevent them from breaking your package.

However, it is important that we are realistic about the level of
test coverage provided by these commands: most regressions cannot be
detected in this way. So it is not appropriate for packages with only
superficial tests to have the reduced migration time to migrate from
unstable to testing as that means less opportunity for testing by users
compared to the package with no tests.

To support this, the keyword "Restrictions: superficial" has been
defined [1]. Packages where all tests are marked with this keyword are not
considered for the reduced migration age from unstable to testing, and
will not be allowed to migrate automatically in later stages of the
freeze [2].

Its always better to have more extensive testing than having
superficial testing, which again is better than having no test.

Please consider i) Adding a non-trivial test, and/or ii) Mark the
trivial test with "Restrictions: superficial", similar to
[3] or [4].

The Release Team has listed this issue in the list of Release Critical
Issues for bullseye [5] and has mentioned that the test must be marked
superficial if it is not testing one of its own installed binary
packages in some way. As a result, the severity of this bug report might
be increased to serious in future.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst#defined-restrictions
[2] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/commit/a80908df7d119b181eec5eb0542634a30c2ad468
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/apparmor-team/apparmor/-/commit/580667513a097088ebe579884b38ac8d8666d3b3
[5] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt

Hello,

Bug #974469 in python-socksipy reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-socksipy/-/commit/23b86e145a73a72a3e5234e7e8cb632264db5259
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d/tests: mark test as superficial

Closes: #974469
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(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/974469

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
python-socksipy, 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 974469@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> (supplier of updated python-socksipy package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:32:55 +0200
Source: python-socksipy
Architecture: source
Version: 1.7.1+dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Closes: 974469
Changes:
 python-socksipy (1.7.1+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team Upload
   * Add debian/salsa-ci.yml
   * Use dh-sequence-python3
   * Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no": it is the default now
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4, drop Priority: tag
   * Rewrite d/watch in v5 format
 .
   [ Diego M. Rodriguez ]
   * d/tests: mark test as superficial (Closes: #974469)
 .
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
   * Set upstream metadata fields
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