diff -Nru ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/changelog ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/changelog
--- ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/changelog	2014-04-10 02:33:13.000000000 +0200
+++ ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/changelog	2014-11-23 17:40:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+ruby-em-hiredis (0.2.1-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Disable localhost tests to allow this package to build even when there's
+    no lo interface configured (Closes: #759917)
+
+ -- Margarita Manterola <marga@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:21:27 +0100
+
 ruby-em-hiredis (0.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Bump gem2deb build dependency to >= 0.7.5~
diff -Nru ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/0003-Disable-network-tests ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/0003-Disable-network-tests
--- ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/0003-Disable-network-tests	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/0003-Disable-network-tests	2014-11-23 16:22:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+Index: ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/spec/base_client_spec.rb
+===================================================================
+--- ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1.orig/spec/base_client_spec.rb	2014-11-23 16:12:34.672382770 +0100
++++ ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/spec/base_client_spec.rb	2014-11-23 16:21:08.049180753 +0100
+@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
+     }
+   end
+ 
+-  it "should emit an event on reconnect failure, with the retry count" do
++  it "should emit an event on reconnect failure, with the retry count",
++    :localhost => true do
+     # Assumes there is no redis server on 9999
+     connect(1, "redis://localhost:9999/") do |redis|
+       expected = 1
+@@ -35,7 +36,8 @@
+     end
+   end
+ 
+-  it "should fail the client deferrable after 4 unsuccessful attempts" do
++  it "should fail the client deferrable after 4 unsuccessful attempts",
++    :localhost => true do
+     connect(1, "redis://localhost:9999/") do |redis|
+       events = []
+       redis.on(:reconnect_failed) { |count|
+@@ -50,7 +52,8 @@
+     end
+   end
+ 
+-  it "should fail commands immediately when in failed state" do
++  it "should fail commands immediately when in failed state",
++    :localhost => true do
+     connect(1, "redis://localhost:9999/") do |redis|
+       redis.fail
+       redis.get('foo').errback { |error|
+@@ -61,7 +64,8 @@
+     end
+   end
+ 
+-  it "should fail queued commands when entering failed state" do
++  it "should fail queued commands when entering failed state",
++    :localhost => true do
+     connect(1, "redis://localhost:9999/") do |redis|
+       redis.get('foo').errback { |error|
+         error.class.should == EM::Hiredis::Error
+@@ -72,7 +76,8 @@
+     end
+   end
+ 
+-  it "should allow reconfiguring the client at runtime" do
++  it "should allow reconfiguring the client at runtime",
++    :localhost => true do
+     connect(1, "redis://localhost:9999/") do |redis|
+       redis.on(:reconnect_failed) {
+         redis.configure("redis://localhost:6379/9")
diff -Nru ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/series ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/series
--- ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/series	2014-04-10 01:39:13.000000000 +0200
+++ ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/patches/series	2014-11-23 16:10:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 0001-Remove-git-calls-in-gemspec.patch
 0002-Update-WRONGTYPE-error-message-test.patch
+0003-Disable-network-tests
diff -Nru ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/ruby-tests.rake ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/ruby-tests.rake
--- ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/ruby-tests.rake	2013-06-26 10:08:31.000000000 +0200
+++ ruby-em-hiredis-0.2.1/debian/ruby-tests.rake	2014-11-23 16:21:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
 task :default => :spec
 RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new do |t|
+  t.rspec_opts = "--tag ~localhost"
 end