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

[Étienne Mollier]

Hi Paul,

Paul Gevers, on 2025-11-07:
> 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.

Thank you, this looks interesting, it's the first time I hear of
the CI environment variable, but I vaguely recall of common
variables conventions that were in use at least by Perl modules
automation for autopkgtest[1]:

>> The environment variables AUTOMATED_TESTING and
>> NONINTERACTIVE_TESTING are set to 1 by default.

AUTOMATED_TESTING feels both common and generic enough that I'd
feel comfortable forwarding the change upstream, independently
of the language.

[1]: https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/autopkgtest.html#smoke

Have a nice day,  :)
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