Tests not working in Debian

Hello,

How do you guys build the Debian Wheezy packages? Do you build them with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck to skip the tests or you have some magic environment different from an average Debian Wheezy installation?
The package has been unbuildable since 5.5.35 (MDEV-5591 was never resolved in 5.5 branch). From 5.5.35 to 5.5.40 it could be fixed by removing the obsolete lines you removed from 10.0 (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/10.0/revision/3975). But in 5.5.41 a change has been made to mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl that is another non-starter to the test procedure.

The tests kick of after changing "$basedir/extra/replace" to "$basedir/builddir/extra/replace" in the line 2497. It's kind of puzzling to me though how it is possible that the stock source packages for Debian Wheezy have been unbuildable since nearly a year and still you successfully build them. Am I missing something or doing something stupid while trying to build MariaDB 5.5.x from your stock Debian Wheezy source packages?