Comment 5 for bug 1933391

My hunch apparently was not too far off mark, as the tests did indeed pass. kopanocore now no longer is a blocker for openldap or php8 migrations; instead now openldap blocks kopanocore and php8. So not 100% finished but the FTBFS is sorted and kopanocore should need no further attention, hence this bug can be closed.

Utkarsh, yeah I also saw the red in debian's CI, however the test failures I reproduced don't match the ones in debian. Those test failures appear to be some mysql/mariadb confusion during the setup part of the test; the issues I was hitting occur a little later in the test during the auth prep, so it didn't quite feel like an apples to apples situation.

If my hunch had been wrong and the autopkgtests continued to fail, next step was going to be to consider disabling or hinting the still-failing tests. Or perhaps your proposal would have been better. Would have been an interesting debate. :-) And I'm also not at all opposed to dropping kopanocore + company from the archive should it continue to cause maintenance trouble; the package we're shipping is quite old compared with current upstream, and I suspect we have few users of it.