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