Bug#728613: please support parallel package builds

[Jonathan Dowland]

Hi Gregor

> On 3 Nov 2013, at 15:08, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I completely agree. I've only filed such wish list bugs when I've been submitting a patch for something else at the same time. I haven't read any existing threads to find out why it's non-trivial to change the default, I shall do some reading.

Thanks