On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 09:42:05AM +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote: > we (Univention GmbH) rebuild packages (from Debian-Jessie or newer) > using "-j8". Is that a dpkg-buildpackage option? It's documented to fail on certain packages, you need to use -J instead, and maintainers need to certify that a package can be built in parallel by bumping the debhelper compat level or passing appropriate flags to debhelper tools. > What do you thing: If parallel build a worthy goal? Yes. Please test packages and submit patches. > With all the reproducible build stuff going on, I think it would be nice > if someone™ can also donate CPU time to check that -j`nproc` works. No, building the package with -j`nproc` is not enough, you also need to be sure the result works correctly (and repro is not very useful for this until 100% coverage). -- WBR, wRAR
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