Okay so I was a little confused because gitolite has no test suite. Turns out this failure is for the system test of the gitolite service that I didn't know existed. I figured out how to run that and reproduced the failure. Despite git-minimal being sufficient for everything I use gitolite for on my server, using it breaks the system test. I reverted back to using the bigger git package and the test is passing again. Revert pushed as commit c4504dfb1da78f2f21fc5139a2fd5e82ed0ef21c.
Sorry for the breakage, - Dave
