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

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Balint Reczey wrote:

> One criterion that came to my mind is filtering by severity, including
> errors for sure, but not pedantic ones.

Mmm, unfortunately I think we would still want to know if, for
example, the runtime toolchain changes such that a pedantic tag
changes behaviour. :(

Felix Lechner wrote:

> About 95% of the time is spent building packages, even though they
> almost never change. The tests would run much faster if we shipped
> pre-built packages.

Another way to accomplish this could be that we could cache/store them
across autopkgtest runs? IIRC (at least) Gitlab supports caching stuff
like this.


Best wishes,

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