Bug#1035461: texlive-binaries: Allow install of TeXlive without SSE2
Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2022.20220321.62855-5
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
In bug#1023007, we discovered that `luatex`'s JIT compiler generates
code that uses SSE2 instructions, so `texlive-binaries` was changed to
require `sse2-support`.
This was a quick&easy way to avoid the crashes when `luatex` is run on
an old machine without support for SSE2, but it does this in a rather
crude way since it basically prevents installation of TeXlive altogether
on such old machines, even for those common cases where `luatex` is not
used at all.
I can see various ways to improve the situation:
- Arrange for `luatex` to work even in the absence of SSE2, e.g. by
disabling the JIT compiler on those old machines.
- Arrange for `luatex` to exit cleanly with a human-readable
error message when run on a machine without SSE2 support.
- Change the package structure by splitting `luatex` out of
`texlive-binaries`.
I personally don't use `luatex`, so anything that lets me install and
use `pdflatex` as before will make me happy.
Stefan
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minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 80 Apr 3 2016 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2313 May 2 13:03 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 12 2022 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 9 05:54 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 9 05:54 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 Apr 14 2014 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Oct 19 2022 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 9 05:54 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 9 05:54 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5047 Apr 18 14:51 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Aug 24 2006 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Oct 19 2022 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-7
ii libfontconfig1 2.14.1-4
ii libfreetype6 2.12.1+dfsg-5
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
ii libgraphite2-3 1.3.14-1
ii libharfbuzz0b 6.0.0+dfsg-3
ii libicu72 72.1-3
ii libkpathsea6 2022.20220321.62855-5
ii libmpfr6 4.2.0-1
ii libpaper1 1.1.29
ii libpixman-1-0 0.42.2-1
ii libpng16-16 1.6.39-2
ii libptexenc1 2022.20220321.62855-5
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii libsynctex2 2022.20220321.62855-5
ii libteckit0 2.5.11+ds1-1+b1
ii libtexlua53-5 2022.20220321.62855-5
ii libtexluajit2 2022.20220321.62855-5
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.4-2
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.14-1
ii libxi6 2:1.8-1+b1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.3-3
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1.1
ii libxt6 1:1.2.1-1.1
ii libzzip-0-13 0.13.72+dfsg.1-1.1
ii perl 5.36.0-7
ii sse2-support 15
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii tex-common 6.18
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1
Versions of packages texlive-binaries recommends:
pn dvisvgm <none>
ii texlive-base 2022.20230122-3
texlive-binaries suggests no packages.
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 13.11.4
Versions of packages texlive-binaries is related to:
ii tex-common 6.18
ii texlive-base 2022.20230122-3
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