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Re: Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture



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
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