Recently I want to make a debian package of a scientific computing library. I try to use pybuild in my debian/rules. I found some tests failed because the test code downloads some data from the internet when the test code is running for the first time. I want to omit these tests. However, the test uses Python built-in unittests I do not find any switch to omit a small number of tests (it seems only supporting selecting which tests to include). The document in pybuild mentions that it is possible for `pytest` framework (https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Pybuild#debian.2Fcontrol). Since pybuild wraps the command line switch of these frameworks. I think it is hard to find solution on pybuild level if unittests do not support it. As far as I can figure out, I can inject some decorator to the test code to omit these test functions, I do not know whether it is acceptable to make such "patch" in debian. I wonder if there were any way to deal with this kind of problems.
Some additional informations: https://salsa.debian.org/zhaofeng-shu33-guest/ete is the source code repo. Thanks
