Bug#1115742: RFS python-mcp

On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:21:50 +0200 "Pieter Lenaerts" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Python team,

> Package is at https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-mcp
> 
> There was an ITP bug at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1115742
> 
> Can someone please review my work? If its fine, upload it or give me upload
> rights? Not sure if that can work on new packages?

LGTM. I'll make final checks before sponsoring the upload to NEW.

> Two questions I have:
> 1. I added a man page. I created that from markdown, but to keep pandoc out of the
> build process I manually converted the md to troff and kept both in the debian
> dir. Is that fine or should I build the troff file from my markdown source?

It is fine.

> 2. I now have the second package that uses network calls during tests. They
> break in gbp buildpackage because I use auto-apt-proxy. I work around that with
> a fixture unsetting HTTPS?_PROXY env vars. Is that the way to go? I doubt we
> want to bother all upstream packages to unset HTTPS?_PROXY vars like that?

Debian policy disallows network access during required targets:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html
It is not likely network is accessible with within buildd.
If it fails, simply skip the tests that requires network access.