On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:22:58PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the package maintainer of wml which is used to build the static > web pages on www.debian.org. > > One idea is to rebuild that web page as part of the autopkgtest suite. > I though wonder if that's feasible at all: > > * It needs to fetch data via wget and git, see > https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/README this is not a problem, at least on Debian CI. FYI external network access is proxied in the Ubuntu infra, if you care. > * It will run for hours if not a day or two. (Only rebuilding the > English part from scratch took nearly an hour on a ThinkPad X250. > Rebuilding the German part took a little bit more than half an hour. > There 39 supported languages, i.e. I'd expect it to run for about a > day if needs to regenerate the whole website.) This is a problem, as each test in autopkgtest has a timeout of ~ 2.5h by default. Maybe try having multiple tests, one for English and a few others for other languages.
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