[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1140121: starts too many processes when built with parallel=1 on riscv64

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi Simon,

On 2026-06-16 13:57, Simon Richter wrote:
> Source: igraph
> Version: 0.10.15+ds-3~bpo12+1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-riscv at lists.debian.org, sjr at debian.org
> User: debian-riscv at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: riscv64
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't tested other architectures, so they may be affected as well.
> 
> I just built igraph from bookworm-backports on riscv64 with pbuilder,
> asking for "-j1" to be passed to dpkg-buildpackage.
> 
> The build then started about 2000 parallel processes, leading to a
> system load of 500.
> 
> I suspect that some calculation for a "-j" parameter ends up computing
> an empty string.

I think this is just same bug as #1117554, which got fixed in version 
1.0.0+ds-1. Note that this is not specific to riscv64.

Regards
Aurelien

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