[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#829347: insighttoolkit4: dpkg-buildpackage -A could take only 5 seconds

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:insighttoolkit4
Version: 4.9.1-1

Dear maintainer:

The architecture-independent package "insighttoolkit4-examples"
does not seem to need the whole building process to be generated.

I see that you are already doing source-only uploads, which is great.

To put in perspective: When the last source-only upload for this
package was made, the "amd64" autobuilder took 20 hours and 55 minutes
to create the arch-dependent packages, and the "all" autobuilder took
another 18 hours and 57 minutes to create the arch-independent package
insighttoolkit4-examples:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=insighttoolkit4

So: Could we please reduce the time required for "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
to work? The current setup is certainly "suboptimal".

The attached patch works for me, but I've only tested the
"dpkg-buildpackage -A" part. Please give it a try. Even if
it is not 100% suitable for "dpkg-buildpackage -B", it should
be easy to fix.

The reason I ask for this is that I'm checking that "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
works for all packages for which it makes sense. The result of my
checks may be found here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=binary-indep;users=sanvila@debian.org

Version 4.9.1-1 of this package is obviously source-only ready, as it
was uploaded in source-only form and it didn't FTBFS in any autobuilder,
but if this fact could be checked in only 5 seconds (with
"dpkg-buildpackage -A"), it would be absolutely great.

Thanks.
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