Bug#1080322: latexmk: add -parallel=N option
- To: "Barak A. Pearlmutter" <barak@cs.nuim.ie>, Preuße, Hilmar <hille42@web.de>
- Cc: 1080322@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#1080322: latexmk: add -parallel=N option
- From: John Collins <jcc8@psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 14:14:51 -0400
- Message-id: <[🔎] 136b7893-6661-4ff2-86f9-3deeb1912782@psu.edu>
- Reply-to: John Collins <jcc8@psu.edu>, 1080322@bugs.debian.org
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Just a summary of the current situation: The parallelization code has been
added to the upstream code of latexmk, and a number of corrections made. It
will be in the next release unless some show-stopper is found. There's a set
of use cases where it looks like it will be rather useful.
John Collins
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