Bug#930487: lintian: use GitLab caching of test packages to speed up test suite CI

To: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, 930487@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#930487: lintian: use GitLab caching of test packages to speed up test suite CI
From: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:12:25 -0700
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Hi Chris,

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 1:33 PM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I've been hacking on this on a Salsa-local fork of Lintian that splits
> the generation of the test packages and the testing itself, crucially
> caching the result of the former if the tests and some other key files
> have not changed.

Will it also force an update of the test packages when the build chain
has changed? It may expose Lintian bugs like #932339.

Kind regards,
Felix

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