=item B<--parallel>
-Enable support for parallel builds if underlying build system provides this
-feature. The number of parallel processes is controlled by the
+Enable parallel builds if underlying build system supports them.
+The number of parallel jobs is controlled by the
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable (L<Debian Policy, section 4.9.1>) at
-build time. It might also be subject to the build system specific limit.
+build time. It might also be subject to a build system specific limit.
If this option is not specified, debhelper currently defaults to not
-supporting parallel package builds.
+allowing parallel package builds.
=item B<--max-parallel>I<=maximum>
-This option implies L<--parallel> and allows to further limit the number of
+This option implies L<--parallel> and allows further limiting the number of
jobs that can be used in a parallel build. If the package build is known to
only work with certain levels of concurrency, you can set this to the maximum
-level that is known to work, or that you wish to support. If set to 1, parallel
-builds will be effectively forbidden.
+level that is known to work, or that you wish to support.
=item B<--list>, B<-l>
+debhelper (7.4.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
+ without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:34:18 -0500
+
debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo. Closes: #558654