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Bug#930487: lintian: speed up test suite CI



[2019-06-13 21:29] "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>
> Gitlab has a support for saving various parts of a successful build
> for the next one. I believe the idea is that we would build the test
> packages and then push them to this cache re-using them on any subsequent
> test runs. People often use this to cache "pip" Python dependencies
> but I don't see any obvious reason why we can't use it here.

What is Lintian policy on usage of languages other then Perl?
It feels that build system for test suite is overconstrained now
(rebuilds more then necessary), and I consider to make some experiments
with Shake[1]. Should the experiments succeed, will they be accepted?

 [1] https://shakebuild.com
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