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



On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:19 PM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:

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.

Upon reflection, each test should be packaged separately. That way I no longer have to worry about using chroot to build tests with potentially conflicting build dependencies.



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