Bug#728613: please support parallel package builds

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Gregor, hi Jonathan

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 04:08:09PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:43:31 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> 
> > Package: libfile-mimeinfo-perl
> > Version: 0.20-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > File: /usr/bin/mimeopen
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > patch attached.
> 
> While I agree that parallel builds are nice, I'm not sure we want to
> manually [0] add --parallel to each of our ~2700 packages, I'd rather see
> this changed in debhelper (and CDBS); which seems to be not so
> trivial, since this is discussed on the BTS every now and then.
> 
> [0] Well, we could do a nice mass-change, if we want.
> 
> What do others think?

Personally I would prefer to keep the simple "three-line" debian/rules
makefile for our easy packages whenever possible. Otherwise we
probably also would want to modify dh-make-perl.

Regards,
Salvatore