Disable ICMP tests on Ubuntu in GitHub.

Ref actions/runner-images#11614; Closes #9

Author: jaraco

conftest.py

@@ -19,6 +19,25 @@ def pywin32_missing():
     importlib.import_module('win32service')
 
 
+def old_ping_exception():
+    """
+    Ping test has different exception on older Pythons.
+    """
+    return sys.version_info < (3, 10)
+
+
+def broken_actions_runner():
+    """
+    Is unprivileged ICMP unavailable?
+
+    Since Dec 2024, GitHub Actions runners no longer seem
+    to be able to allow unprivileged ICMP.
+
+    actions/runner-images#11614
+    """
+    return bool(os.environ.get('GITHUB_ACTIONS')) and os.environ['RUNNER_OS'] == 'Linux'
+
+
 collect_ignore = (
     [
         'jaraco/net/devices/linux.py',
@@ -31,10 +50,9 @@ def pywin32_missing():
     ]
     * pywin32_missing()
     + [
-        # ping test has different exception on older Pythons
         'jaraco/net/icmp.py',
     ]
-    * (sys.version_info < (3, 10))
+    * (old_ping_exception() or broken_actions_runner())
 )
 
 

tox.ini

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ extras =
 	type
 passenv =
 	GITHUB_ACTIONS
+	RUNNER_OS
 
 [testenv:diffcov]
 description = run tests and check that diff from main is covered