* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, 2012-11-25, 15:53:
To clarify, I think this would be a reasonable thing to suggest as a policy amendment; I might well even support it ...Nothing in policy forbids using -j if parallel *isn't* set; it only specifies behaviour when parallel is set.Hmm. Not in the wording, but that’s why I said that’s my reading.
See bug #663762. -- Jakub Wilk