Bug#926409: lintian: autopkgtest takes very long to finish

[Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@canonical.com>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.11.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Lintian has a lot of tests which is great for coverage, but maybe some
of them could be skipped in autopkgtest runs.
Currently autopkgtest takes ~1 wall clock hours on Debian's amd64 CI
[1], but Ubuntu runs autopkgtest on all architectures and arm64 runs
for example take more than 3 hours [2].

Setting the tests to run in parallel helps with the wall clock time,
but still this may not be the best use of CI CPU resources or if all
tests are needed, maybe lintian itself could be sped up a bit.

Cheers,
Balint

[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/lintian/unstable/amd64/
[2] http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/lintian/disco/arm64

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Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer