Dear Maarten, I know how frustrating it can be!
Does https://ci.debian.net/doc/file.MAINTAINERS.html#label-How+can+I+reproduce+the+test+run+locally-3F help? I use both the pbuilder hook and sbuild with lxc setups. The pbuilder hook is convenient as it gets run everytime I build a package with pbuilder (I actually use cowbuilder-dist, but it is all the same). However it inherits all the build-depends from the source package, which might be more than is defined in debian/tests/control. So if I'm having a specific autotesk issue I use the sbuild route. Sbuild can also test a modified debian/tests/* without rebuilding a package, which can save a lot of time in some circumstances. -- Michael R. Crusoe On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, 12:51 Maarten L. Hekkelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to test (debug) the environment in which packages are built > and packaged? Or do I continue by guessing what might cause a problem and > try to see if my guess is correct by submitting a new version? > > Libzeep e.g. has test code and this fails with a 'host not found' error. > This is probably because my test code tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 and I > should perhaps have used 'localhost' instead. But I'm not sure if that will > work. So now I can create a patch replacing the numeric version with the > string and hope this will work. I'd rather be sure this is the fix needed > before I submit another version. > > regards, -maarten > >

