speeding up package builds

[Scott Kitterman]

Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:22:56PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> >Hope this helps a bit in making package builds and migrations a bit
>> >faster.
>
>> The last python-qt4 sync I did from Debian took over a day to migrate
>due
>> to the amount of time the autopkgtests took.  It was at least twice
>as
>> long as the build time on the slowest arch.  Is there work planned to
>> speed up these tests?
>
>Jenkins claims that the python-qt4 autopkgtests themselves take < 3min
>to
>run:
>
>https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Saucy/view/AutoPkgTest/job/saucy-adt-python-qt4/19/
>
>In comparison, python-qt4 4.10.2-2 took > 3h to build on armhf:
>
>https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-qt4/4.10.2-2/+build/4849556
>
>Was python-qt4 held up by autopkgtests from its reverse-dependencies? 
>Or
>maybe python-qt4 was caught up the day that we were finding bugs in the
>autopkgtest infrastructure itself (reporting results incorrectly to
>proposed-migration)?

It was tests from rdepends.  IIRC there were four or five. 

Scott K