On 08/05/2017 07:53 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > Thus, here's a proposed solution: in unstable, there's now a bunch of > packages that do such checking in preinst, and thus refuse (overridably) to > even install such software. > > Currently this includes: > * sse2: i386 (inc. hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386) > * sse3: i386, amd64, x32 (〃, kfreebsd-amd64) > * sse4.2: i386, amd64, x32 (〃) > * neon: armhf > * altivec: powerpc > (amd64 always has sse2, arm64 neon, ppc64el altivec) > Package names are $(ISA)-support, thus sse2-support if you need SSE2. > > To use: make your package: > Depends: sse2-support [any-i386] > > Lemme know if anything is amiss; in particular, adding a new extension is a > two-line change.
I suppose it wouldn't be possible to add autodetection to debhelper or at least lintian based on instructions present in the binary? For the latter I'd imagine something with a low certainty suggesting that you depend on a certain meta package. (To catch the cases where there's actually autodetection at runtime.) Kind regards Philipp Kern
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