The package infernal has also dropped i386 support for this reason. Using it's example, this can cause issues for downstreams with i386 arch:all builders. Just something to consider
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Balint Reczey <rbal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > On Sep 14, 2014 9:16 AM, Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > > The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU > > > requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, see [1] > > > for more details). And the presence of SSE2 is not guaranteed on the > > > i386 architecture. > > > > chromium upstream decided to go SSE2-only, but I've reverted that in > > the Debian packages for now. I would prefer to not diverge, and would > > do so if there were a convenient way to detect and prompt users about > > the problem (rather than segfault). > How about creating a package named like sse2-support for i386 which fails > to install (unless it is forced) on not SSE2-capable hardware emitting a > proper error message? > Packages requiring SSE2 could (build-) depend on it. > > BTW steam already requires SSE2. > > Cheers, > Balint
