[dpkg] 26/200: man: Clarify how to revert to the serial dpkg-buildpackage behavior

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commit 91eae38314584ba73510b1ccfd0955016cd806cc
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 02:24:24 2016 +0100

    man: Clarify how to revert to the serial dpkg-buildpackage behavior
    
    Explicitly mention in dpkg-buildpackage(1) that setting the number
    of parallel jobs to 1, restores the serial behavior.
    
    Prompted-by: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de>
---
 debian/changelog          | 3 +++
 man/dpkg-buildpackage.man | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9b3c1e1..81680e5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ dpkg (1.18.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Documentation:
     - Improve the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS description in dpkg-buildpackage(1).
       And mention the parallel option there.
+    - Explicitly mention in dpkg-buildpackage(1) that setting the number
+      of parallel jobs to 1, restores the serial behavior.
+      Prompted by Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de>.
   * Test suite:
     - Do not fail tests on missing fakeroot, just skip them.
   * Build system:
diff --git a/man/dpkg-buildpackage.man b/man/dpkg-buildpackage.man
index 2b47736..6129ea6 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-buildpackage.man
+++ b/man/dpkg-buildpackage.man
@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ to the \fB\-j\fP option except that it does not set the \fBMAKEFLAGS\fP
 environment variable, and as such it is safer to use with any package
 including those that are not parallel-build safe.
 
-\fBauto\fP is the default behavior (since dpkg 1.18.11).
+\fBauto\fP is the default behavior (since dpkg 1.18.11). Setting the number
+of jobs to 1 will restore a serial behavior.
 .TP
 .BR \-D ", " \-\-check\-builddeps
 Check build dependencies and conflicts; abort if unsatisfied (long option

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