ACK: LP#1516686 -- clean up source generation and improve testing performance

[Brad Figg]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:47:19PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have slowly been cleaning up the kernel source package generation to
> reduce the cruft therein with the aim of reducing the noise in kernel
> deltas to make review simpler and easier for the Archive Admins; things
> such as ensuring consistant ordering for control information and removing
> temporary files we do not use in the source package.  We have in parallel
> been improving the ADT test rebuild to save testing time, not rebuilding
> at all when only testing for the kernel we just built.
> 
> Following this email are patch kits for precise, trusty,
> trusty/lts-backport-utopic, and vivid to harmonise all of these with
> the current state of the art.  The kits in the main represent clean
> cherry-picks back to those releases from wily.  The one exception is
> the patch below for trusty which was collapsed into a cloud-tools patch
> incorrectly:
> 
>   [trusty/master-next 3/4] UBUNTU: [Tests] rebuild -- fix up rebuild test
> 
> These should only have build/test time effects, not code effects are
> present.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to precise, trusty, trusty/lts-backport-utopic, and
> vivid.
> 
> -apw
> 
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Looks good to me

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