diff --git a/swh/lister/gnu/tests/test_lister.py b/swh/lister/gnu/tests/test_lister.py
index ad0c37d..327c73d 100644
--- a/swh/lister/gnu/tests/test_lister.py
+++ b/swh/lister/gnu/tests/test_lister.py
@@ -1,51 +1,52 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2019 The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 import logging
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 def test_gnu_lister(swh_listers, requests_mock_datadir):
     lister = swh_listers['gnu']
 
     lister.run()
 
     r = lister.scheduler.search_tasks(task_type='load-tar')
     assert len(r) == 383
 
     for row in r:
         assert row['type'] == 'load-tar'
         # arguments check
         args = row['arguments']['args']
         assert len(args) == 0
 
         # kwargs
         kwargs = row['arguments']['kwargs']
         assert set(kwargs.keys()) == {'url', 'artifacts'}
 
         url = kwargs['url']
         assert url.startswith('https://ftp.gnu.org')
 
         url_suffix = url.split('https://ftp.gnu.org')[1]
         assert 'gnu' in url_suffix or 'old-gnu' in url_suffix
 
         artifacts = kwargs['artifacts']
         # check the artifact's structure
         artifact = artifacts[0]
         assert set(artifact.keys()) == {
             'url', 'length', 'time', 'filename', 'version'
         }
 
         for artifact in artifacts:
             logger.debug(artifact)
             # 'time' is an isoformat string now
             for key in ['url', 'time', 'filename', 'version']:
                 assert isinstance(artifact[key], str)
             assert isinstance(artifact['length'], int)
 
         assert row['policy'] == 'oneshot'
         assert row['priority'] is None
+        assert row['retries_left'] == 3