Bug#930487: lintian: speed up test suite CI

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Dmitry,

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:41 AM Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

The large majority of test packages is built using
'dpkg-buildpackage'. Do you plan to rewrite it?

I looked into using golang for the test suite but, for the things we
are doing, Perl is quite fast. It's also mature and available
everywhere. How does Shake compare?

Kind regards,
Felix