Before uploading stuff to Debian, I build in a clean chroot, and then run piuparts, autopkgtest and lintian. For some of my packages this can take around an hour on my laptop, which is fairly old. Normally I don’t mind waiting, but sometimes I want to put my laptop away, and then it would be good for things to be faster. It occurred to me that I could make use of my builds.sr.ht account to run these tests on more powerful hardware.

This build manifest seems to work:

# BEGIN CONFIGURABLE
sources:
  - https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libgit-annex-perl.git
environment:
  source: libgit-annex-perl
  quilt:  auto
# END CONFIGURABLE

image: debian/unstable
packages:
  - autopkgtest
  - devscripts
  - dgit
  - lintian
  - piuparts
  - sbuild
tasks:
  - setup: |
      cd $source
      source_version=$(dpkg-parsechangelog -SVersion)
      echo "source_version=$source_version" >>~/.buildenv
      git deborig || origtargz
      sudo sbuild-createchroot --command-prefix=eatmydata --include=eatmydata unstable /srv/chroot/unstable-amd64-sbuild
      sudo sbuild-adduser $USER
  - build: |
      cd $source
      dgit --quilt=$quilt sbuild -d unstable --no-run-lintian
  - lintian: |
      lintian ${source}_${source_version}_multi.changes
  - piuparts: |
      sudo piuparts --no-eatmydata --schroot unstable-amd64-sbuild ${source}_${source_version}_multi.changes
  - autopkgtest: |
      autopkgtest ${source}_${source_version}_multi.changes -- schroot unstable-amd64-sbuild

And here’s my script.