The test suite has been rewritten, the patches do not apply any more, and
some of the tests they disabled do not seem to exist any more. The current
test results are:
ERROR: 137 tests were run,
66 failed (59 expected failures).
32 tests were skipped.

So there are 7 failed tests now. I am attaching the testsuite.log and leave
it to the specialists (Ludovic?) to decide whether they fall into the same
category as the previously disabled tests.

Also the NEWS file speaks about tests:
  - The legacy tests have all been migrated to the Autotest harness.
  - The Autotest testsuite can be run without the especially time consuming
    tests with:
        make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k "!expensive"'

So I wonder whether the 'pre-check phase should not be dropped now.

Andreas