retitle 682285 postfix: parallel build not supported severity 682285 wishlist thanks
On 2012-07-21 03:13 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Package: postfix > Version: 2.9.3-2 > Severity: serious > > postfix strangely fails to build from source on my build machine (in a > pbuilder chroot which I use for all my builds) > where I was trying to build an l10n NMU which I announced a few days > ago. > > The failure is quite strange and might need more analysis which I'm > unfortunately: > - not able to do alon > - not in position to ask for help doing so as I'm half-VAC for still a > few days > > So, I hereby attach the build failure log. Maybe someone will be able > to dig into it. I can reproduce it under "dpkg-buildpackage -j4", which is what you've been using. However, the package does not announce support for parallel builds, and a non-parallel build succeeded here. Thus lowering the severity. Building arbitrary packages in parallel is not a good idea since it can easily result in misbuilds. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org