[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1120170: Bug#1120170: bbmap autopkgtest uses insane amount of memory

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 11/6/25 22:43, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Étienne Mollier, on 2025-11-06:
>> If so, I consider implementing a check based on the definition
>> of the AUTOPKGTEST_TMP environment variable.  That sounds very
>> hackish, but would avoid hammering on ci.d.n, while having low
>> risk of introducing possible performance regressions for end
>> users.


I recently learned that a lot of CI frameworks set the environmental 
variable CI. Unfortunately for this bug report autopkgtest nor debci 
doesn't do that, maybe either of them should. In the absence of a common 
variable, I think this isn't unreasonable, and (minus the variable name) 
could even be suggested upstream. Thinking a tiny bit further, if you 
want to propose this upstream, you could use a more generic variable 
like CI and set the variable in d/t/control or in the script you run to 
call the tests.

Paul

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