Bug#926409: lintian: autopkgtest takes very long to finish
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:42 AM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
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> * I'm not sure *how* we can speed up the tests. I mean, they all
> essentially involve building Debian packages with all the usual
> debhelper calls, etc. Speeding *this* up is somewhat out-of-scope
> of this Lintian wishlist issue, alas.
>
> However, perhaps Felix has some input here as he has been doing a lot
> of work on the test suite recently?
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. One way to accomplish that would be to package the
tests separately.
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