Comment 2 for bug 1709140

I'm attaching the packaging work I've done so far in case someone else works on this more later.

It would be good to run the tests without using an embedded copy of gtest/googletest
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785997

Also, maybe we could use autopkgtest to run the tests since we can't run all of them at build anyway (but I don't think that should block this upload).