Package: krb5 Version: 1.20-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
it came to my attention that it looks like the build-time tests of MIT krb5 are disabled in debian, via this empty d/rules override: override_dh_auto_test: I dug a bit in the git history, and found this commit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/krb5/-/commit/d35a1394078eb7dba66d763a6e5347ed3ea14204 " Tests are not going to run on a buildd; they need to much net " Hinting that the tests were reaching out to the internet perhaps, and would thus fail (probably due to firewall egress rules). I gave this diff a try in an ubuntu ppa, and the build worked, but I had to disable parallelization for the tests or one would fail consistently: diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index bbf73a3c7b..9452277e02 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ override_dh_fixperms-arch: chmod 700 debian/krb5-kdc/etc/krb5kdc override_dh_auto_test: + dh_auto_test $(DH_BUILD_OPTS) --no-parallel %: dh $@ There are more tests that can be enabled by adding packages do build-depends: - libcmocka-dev - keyutils - python3-pyrad - slapd - python-kdcproxy All of the above I added and they built fine in an ubuntu kinetic ppa. When I added libresolv-wrapper, that one failed a new test, and I didn't investigate further. Maybe we could start slowly, just first re-enabling the tests, and then start adding these extra test-only build-dependencies? We won't want to introduce flakiness to the build of this package.
