Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <ti...@debian.org> writes: > 1) consider that most of CPUs support this flag, so tell the reporter to > compile the package by him/herself.
This is not acceptable and would make your package rc-buggy. Even though it's called i386 and in fact only supports i486, we are not in a state where we want to ditch support for all pre-Pentium 3 CPUs. > 2) remove this specific flag during package building, ending with a > non-optimized software available for all users. > > 3) create a specific -sse2 (or -non-sse2) package. > > 4) ask the upstream to code runtime checks before using SSE2 specific > instructions (is that possible?). > > For now, my choice is #1. It's not an option, so you will need to do something else. Marc -- BOFH #441: Hash table has woodworm
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