Comment 13 for bug 1348954

Reviewing the debdiff of the package uploaded to the queue.
 - debian/patches/apport-support.dpatch, debian/patches/doc-build.diff, debian/patches/installed-testsuite.diff,debian/patches/issue21097.diff : why have these patches been removed? I find no references to these in the changelog.

- debian/rules:
@@ -221,21 +231,22 @@
     stamps/stamp-check stamps/stamp-pystone stamps/stamp-pybench
        touch $@

-PROFILE_EXCLUDES = test_compiler test_distutils test_platform test_subprocess \
+PROFILE_EXCLUDES = test_compiler test_distutils test_subprocess \
        test_multiprocessing test_socketserver \
        test_thread test_threaded_import test_threadedtempfile \
        test_threading test_threading_local test_threadsignals \
        test_concurrent_futures test_ctypes \
        test_dbm_dumb test_dbm_ndbm test_pydoc test_sundry \
- test_signal test_ioctl test_gdb
+ test_signal test_ioctl test_gdb test_ensurepip test_venv
 @@ -416,6 +426,7 @@
 endif
 TESTOPTS = -j 1 -w -u$(TEST_RESOURCES)
 TEST_EXCLUDES =
+TEST_EXCLUDES += test_ensurepip test_venv
 ifeq ($(on_buildd),yes)
   TEST_EXCLUDES += test_tcl test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk \
         test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw \

Why are the ensurepip and venv tests being skipped? Considering the great deal of work that's been put into ensurepip and venv in this version, don't we want this to pass the tests?