testing the test environment

["Maarten L. Hekkelman" <maarten@hekkelman.com>]

    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