Package: debhelper
Version: 7.9.1
Severity: important

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There are currently several issues with how debhelper handles parallel builds.

(1) It is impossible to set DH_OPTIONS=--parallel as environment variable or at
    the top of debian/rules. All debhelper commands return an error with this.
    Why? Do we really need to write `--parallel' everywere in a debian/rules
    file? I have several packages using dh 7 overriding some commands. What's
    the sense of being forced to add this option to every dh command?

(2) This is really annoying: Using `MAKEFLAGS=-j2 debuild' on e.g. this rules
    file, does still set `make -j1':

    %:
        dh --with quilt --parallel $@

    JFTR: debuild -j2 works. When I explicitly set --parallel, then I expect,
    that you don't touch my given MAKEFLAGS.

Can you please either fix that or rethink the design of debhelper? You make it
unneccessary hard to enable parallel builds. Or did I miss something obvious,
that isn't part of the documentation and the manual page?

Regards, Daniel


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (560, 'stable'), (110, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.20.1-11  The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.7.2   Debian package development tools
ii  file                          5.04-2     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text                     1.3.2a-15  advanced HTML to text converter
ii  man-db                        2.5.7-3    on-line manual pager
ii  perl                          5.10.1-13  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base                     5.10.1-13  minimal Perl system
ii  po-debconf                    1.0.16     tool for managing templates file t

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make                       0.55       tool that converts source archives

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