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Bug#1035461: texlive-binaries: Allow install of TeXlive without SSE2



>>>> code that uses SSE2 instructions, so `texlive-binaries` was changed to
>>>> require `sse2-support`.
>> Hmm, so SSE2 is not a requirement on Debian?

No, indeed.  And the `sse2-support` package is the embodiment of this fact.

There's a fairly good reason why SSE2 is not a requirement:
The Debian i386 port's /raison d'être/ is to support those i386 CPUs which
don't also support x86-64, so it's focused on supporting old CPUs.

Further info at: https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo#i386-1

> For post-bookworm I'll do the split, commit has been done.

Thanks.

> For bookworm itself I could think about removing the luajit binaries
> in a point release, if they are not needed in all cases. I'll test
> that later on.

That would be even better :-)


        Stefan


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