On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:42 AM Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: > > * 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.
