diff --git a/quetz/tests/test_cli.py b/quetz/tests/test_cli.py
index 86fc510c..df65ae71 100644
--- a/quetz/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/quetz/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -598,16 +598,26 @@ def test_start_server_local_without_deployment(
     assert res.exit_code == 1
     assert "The specified directory is not a deployment" in res.output
 
-# these tests are strange. I assume they use the fact that pytest timeout might send a signal
-# this signal is then processed by the Interrupt class, which kills the server ? I don't know
-# but life is too short to figure this out, given that the tests are not testing much
+# these tests are strange and time out in the CI
+#  I thing the logic of the test might have been:
+# * the test times out
+# * this may fires SIGALRM since @pytest.mark.timeout(1) is used
+# * this should trigger the installed signal handler
+# * this should terminate the thread
+# * we finally test if the process (which runs the server) was exited gracefully with a exitcode of 0
+# But long story short, these tests time out in the CI.
+# Given their somewhat complicated logic / flow and how little they actually test I would say we just remove them.
 if False:
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("sqlite_in_memory", [False])
     @pytest.mark.timeout(1)
     @pytest.mark.xfail(reason="time out")
     def test_start_server_local_with_deployment_and_config_file(
-        empty_config_on_exit: None, config, config_dir, create_channels_dir, create_tables
+        empty_config_on_exit: None, 
+        config, 
+        config_dir, 
+        create_channels_dir, 
+        create_tables,
     ):
         """Starting server with deployment directory"""
         p = Process(target=cli.app, args=(["start", config_dir, "--port", "8001"],))