Re: Heads up: Upcoming dpkg-buildpackage -j precedence change
Hi!
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 14:21:54 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 10:02:27 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:40:16PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > $ make -jN -f debian/rules build
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=N debian/rules build
> >
> > I prefer the latter behaviour but the former brevity. Would you consider
> > something like -J in dpkg-buildpackage adjusting parallel= in
> > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, and perhaps in the future phasing out -j?
>
> Sure, adding either an option to disable the forced parallel runs in
> combination with -j, or a new option such as -J seems fine to me.
I've now pushed a patch to dpkg git master that adds -J to
dpkg-buildpackage, will be included in the upcoming dpkg 1.18.2.
Thanks,
Guillem
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