Bug#728613: please support parallel package builds

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:34:22 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> > What do others think?
> My guess is that debhelper won't change defaults, even with new 
> compatibility levels, so --parallel will be needed.

My guess re. debhelper is the same.
 
> Are we sure all the builder modules can safely be used in parallel 
> mode?

I'm not sure :)
Probably we'd have to test this if we want it.
 
> If so, I guess it is time to try and employ it.

Hm ... do we know if this is actually helpful? While parallel
building is nice and everything, my pure guess is that it doesn't
help alot, if all, for most of our tiny packages.
(And most of the time is used for chroot setup/teardown, installing
build deps, later lintian, ...)

The time difference should be another test parameter :)


Cheers,
gregor

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