Unfortunately, Debian will sometimes also patch the package to remove failing tests, not understanding that it is a security issue. This is not the first time this has happened.
This is also sometimes unavoidable because not all test suites are built very robustly. One often comes across projects with test suites that the author only intended for their own use and doesn't care if it fails on other peoples systems.
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Unfortunately, Debian will sometimes also patch the package to remove failing tests, not understanding that it is a security issue. This is not the first time this has happened.
This is also sometimes unavoidable because not all test suites are built very robustly. One often comes across projects with test suites that the author only intended for their own use and doesn't care if it fails on other peoples systems.