The tests are run as part of the regular building of the package, just t/21-proxy.t ..skipped: Proxy testing requires POE and WWW::Curl::Simple is left for a more ambitious later maintainer of this package. Tests for the upstream author to check if everything is fine before releasing t/00-distribution.t skipped as well, see https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2016-January/038051.html The build dependencies libtest-pod-coverage-perl, libtest-distribution-perl are only installed for the extended testing already.