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Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2024-08-26 16:12:55)
> Thanks a lot for your deeper analysis, NoisyCoil,
> 
> Quoting noisyc...@tutanota.com (2024-08-18 11:08:35)
> > Given that upstream has closed the bug as "can't fix" I guess there's
> > not much left to do other than removing the package from i386.
> 
> I disagree: What is failing is not building the project on i386, but
> building *optimized* on i386.
> 
> Also, since the package does not provide compiled code but source, we
> cannot really "remove the package from i386".
> 
> I have now added a patch that checks at end-user build time and fails if
> the optimizations enabled and the build is targeted x86 systems that
> lack SSE2 support.
> 
> I think that patch is generally usable, not only for Debian but also
> sensible for upstream to adopt.  I have made them aware, but obviously
> it is their choice if they deem such a patch too fringe for them to be
> burdened with maintaining.

By the way: It would be helpful if you could test lower optimization
levels than the aggressive default might succeed.

Also, would be neat if the patch was improved to not fail but lower
optimization level and emit a warning.  In case you are up for such
challenge :-)

 - Jonas

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