Comment 9 for bug 1811139

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 06:39:06AM -0000, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> upstream maintainer here :)

Hello Fabio, thanks for saying hello :)

> I saw a few comments above related to libnozzle test suite not being
> executed. Due to the nature of libnozzle, the test suite has to be
> executed as root unfortunately. The ioctl required to manage tap devices
> are privileged only.
>
> The test suite detects if running as root or not and act consequently.

Ah, this makes good sense. It'd probably make more sense for the debian
packaging to use autopkgtests to run this, rather than build time tests.
(That might not be the easiest thing to do, coordinating tests built in
the package but not shipped in the package is a fair chunk of work.)

> Also, we are working to address the issues found by coverity scan
> (thanks for the report btw) and integrating coverity into upstream CI as
> well.

Very good news! Coverity can spot things that are just otherwise
impossible to even find.

Thanks