From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:35:38 +0000 (-0500) Subject: changelog and doc rewording X-Git-Tag: 7.4.10~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=debhelper.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c193b7371fed2f042430f56ec981abf5ff6c0caf changelog and doc rewording --- diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod index 19d1d49..a4765ba 100644 --- a/debhelper.pod +++ b/debhelper.pod @@ -219,21 +219,20 @@ directory path that is the same as the source directory path. =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) 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> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 878a5c2..40ce528 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +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 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:34:18 -0500 + debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low * Typo. Closes: #558654