diff --git a/coverage.sh b/coverage.sh
index 9783e44..0a43795 100755
--- a/coverage.sh
+++ b/coverage.sh
@@ -2356,9 +2356,11 @@ cat << END > shared/test.sh
 #!/bin/sh
 set -eu
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
-$CMD --mode=root --variant=apt --logfile=log $DEFAULT_DIST /tmp/debian-chroot $mirror
 # we check the full log to also prevent debug printfs to accidentally make it into a commit
-cat << LOG | diff -u - log
+$CMD --mode=root --variant=apt --logfile=log $DEFAULT_DIST /tmp/debian-chroot $mirror
+# omit the last line which should contain the runtime
+head --lines=-1 log > trimmed
+cat << LOG | diff -u - trimmed
 I: chroot architecture $HOSTARCH is equal to the host's architecture
 I: automatically chosen format: directory
 I: running apt-get update...
@@ -2367,9 +2369,10 @@ I: extracting archives...
 I: installing packages...
 I: cleaning package lists and apt cache...
 LOG
+tail --lines=1 log | grep '^I: success in .* seconds$'
 tar -C /tmp/debian-chroot --one-file-system -c . | tar -t | sort | diff -u tar1.txt -
 rm -r /tmp/debian-chroot
-rm log
+rm log trimmed
 END
 if [ "$HAVE_QEMU" = "yes" ]; then
 	./run_qemu.sh
diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index 42e0277..c75c8ff 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ use POSIX qw(SIGINT SIGHUP SIGPIPE SIGTERM SIG_BLOCK SIG_UNBLOCK strftime);
 use Carp;
 use Term::ANSIColor;
 use Socket;
+use Time::HiRes;
 use version;
 
 ## no critic (InputOutput::RequireBriefOpen)
@@ -3699,6 +3700,8 @@ sub approx_disk_usage {
 }
 
 sub main() {
+    my $before = Time::HiRes::time;
+
     umask 022;
 
     if (scalar @ARGV >= 7 && $ARGV[0] eq "--hook-helper") {
@@ -5249,6 +5252,11 @@ sub main() {
         $exitstatus = 1;
     }
 
+    if ($exitstatus == 0) {
+        my $duration = Time::HiRes::time - $before;
+        info "success in " . (sprintf "%.04f", $duration) . " seconds";
+    }
+
     exit $exitstatus;
 }