needs-internet restriction (Was: Bug#1010653: closed ...) (Bug#1010653: fixed in busco 5.5.0-2)

Hi Andrius,

Am Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 08:27:31AM +0200 schrieb Andrius Merkys:
> On 2023-12-19 18:51, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> >     [ Komolehin Israel Timilehin ]
> >     * Added autopkgtest to check hmmer and prodigal integration (Closes: #1010653)
> 
> Thanks for working on this. I see that the added autopkgtest uses network to
> download the dataset. It is done properly, with 'needs-internet'
> restriction, which is good. However, does Debian CI enable internet access
> for such autopkgtests?

Isn't it exactly what needs-internet restriction was invented for?

May be I'm to naive here but I used it exactly for those cases and
it worked.

Kind regards
   Andreas.