On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 03:23:41PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > My gut feeling says that the package 'sse-support' is sabotage on > architecture "any". >
This is from #823465 http://bugs.debian.org/823465 | I'm afraid there's not enough people who care about 586 enough to maintain | it. And the bad decision of i386 to stick to a single arch during its whole | life makes it hard to do so on debian-ports. Compare with ARM: there's arm | armel armhf arm64 arm32(arm64ilp32) -- it frequently refreshes the ABI to | make use of new CPU features, which also makes it easy to keep old compat | without forcing new processors to stay with the lowest common denominator. I now have a better idea _why_ a sse-suport package. My concern is how should look a Debian control file at source level ( arch all ). At arch Intel makes a 'Depends: sse-support' sense Having at arch ARM 'Depens: sse-support' also, will prevent install, but not `build`. Gee, what a can of worms is thirty years so called binary compatible. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
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