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Bug#855198: marked as done ([obs-studio] Requested i386 architecture)

Your message dated Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:07:47 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#855198: Fwd: Bug#855198: Adding i386 support
has caused the Debian Bug report #855198,
regarding [obs-studio] Requested i386 architecture
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Package: obs-studio
Severity: wishlist

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    Dear maintainer:

    Any chance to get this package officially into i386 architecture?



   Greetings and thanks.



--- System information. ---
Architecture: Kernel:       Linux 4.9.0-1-686-pae

Debian Release: 9.0
  500 testing         ftp.de.debian.org
  50 testing         www.deb-multimedia.org

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tags 855198 wontfix
thanks

On 2019-05-26 15:30:44, David Bremner wrote:
> Ignacio Losiggio <iglosiggio@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >>Why is an i386 package only usable if compiled with sse2 instructions?
> >>If you are targeting post-2003 computers, why aren't you using an amd64
> >>build anyway?
> >
> > Lots of x86_64 machines run x86 systems due to low RAM availability, they
> > are 2010 Atom netbooks, etc.
> >
> > For the low RAM ones i think that currently debian x32 it's not an option
> > if you aren't a power user.
> 
> I stumbled across this bug because of an (unrelated) question about
> obs-studio on #debian. It might be ok to use sse2 instructions if you
> also also depend on the package sse2-support (although this is a bit
> unsettled at the moment). It's definitely not OK if the resulting
> package installs and crashes (or malfunctions) on i386 w/o SSE2.

I don't think its wort to invest the time to make obs work without SSE2
available. Such a build would probably also be pretty useless. If your
CPU doesn't support SSE2, I'd say it's too old to run obs.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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