On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:10:31PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > 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.
Yep, that'd be the way to go IMO. You aren't trying to test dpkg-buildpackage or parts of the package-building toolchain - you're trying to test Lintian, which operates on the results of that. Shunting this part to a one-time operation would be eminently sensible. We do similar in some pkg-gnome packages, for example glib2.0 ships a -tests package that contains "installed tests" which are compiled as part of the package build and then executed during the autopkgtests. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ]
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