Actually I think we can close the bug if this upstream problem is solved. https://github.com/lemire/simdjson/issues/34
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 08:43:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > I don't know about official policy, but I think you could make your bug > not RC by detecting whether the current system can support the package > in some reasonable wail and failing more gracefully than with SIGILL. > > It's not a requirement that all packages work on all systems. > Open-vm-tools doesn't do squat if you aren't running on top of vmware; > pcscd is remarkably useless without a smartcard reader; etc. > I think it ought to be fine to have a package that is only useful with > some given hardware provided that you're reasonable about detecting > requirements, and that you don't place stronger requirements than are > actulaly needed by your package. > > --Sam