[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#889632: parallel: Option --nice not having effect anymore.

[Andreas Tille]

Control: tags -1 upstream
Control: forwarded -1 Ole Tange <ole at tange.dk>

Hi Ole,

I was able to reproduce the issue below with the Debian packaged version
20210822.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

Am Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 04:45:47PM +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> Package: parallel
> Version: 20161222-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> with an old version of parallel, the `--nice` option sets the niceness of the process.
> 
>     $ parallel --version
>     GNU parallel 20130922
>     [...]
>     
>     $ parallel -vv --dry-run --nice 10 echo ::: hello
>     \nice -n10 /bin/bash -c echo\ hello
> 
> However, with the version in Stretch, it does not work anymore.
> 
>     $ parallel --version
>     GNU parallel 20161222
>     [...]
> 
>     $ parallel -vv --dry-run --nice 10 echo ::: hello
>     echo hello
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Charles
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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