Bug#728613: please support parallel package builds

[Damyan Ivanov]

Control: retitle -1 libfile-mimeinfo-perl: please support parallel package builds
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

-=| gregor herrmann, 04.11.2013 21:03:07 +0100 |=-
> 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 :)

Right. Indeed, building libfile-mimeinfo-perl now takes 12.1s total, 
including chroot setup/teardown, with pre-populated package cache. 
Enabling --parallel results in 12.4s build time.

So, Jonathan, why are you requesting enabling parallel builds for 
libfile-mimeinfo-perl?
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