GitLab CI does not run unit tests
GitLab CI currently ./configure
s BIND without ATF support, which prevents unit tests from being executed upon each CI run.
Sadly, ATF is not widely packaged: in the case of Debian, which is of particular interest given that it is the only OS our CI setup uses right now, there have been several attempts to package ATF, but it looks like they did not end with ATF packages getting accepted into official Debian repositories.
Thus, we have two options:
- put a precompiled ATF release into in all of our Docker images (more work to prepare, but saves time upon each CI run),
- compile the ATF version shipped with BIND upon each CI run (easier, but a lot of CPU power goes to waste due to recompiling ATF code over and over).
I ruled out packaging ATF ourselves as I hardly doubt the benefits will outweigh the work we would need to put into it.