Bug#1014417: meson: test changes causes FTBFS

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/10577

I linked an upstream meson issue.
See also https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/10563

A large merge proposal is at
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/10580

Jeremy