Bug#922952: ITP: simdjson -- Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
Actually I think we can close the bug if this upstream problem is solved.
https://github.com/lemire/simdjson/issues/34
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 08:43:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> I don't know about official policy, but I think you could make your bug
> not RC by detecting whether the current system can support the package
> in some reasonable wail and failing more gracefully than with SIGILL.
>
> It's not a requirement that all packages work on all systems.
> Open-vm-tools doesn't do squat if you aren't running on top of vmware;
> pcscd is remarkably useless without a smartcard reader; etc.
> I think it ought to be fine to have a package that is only useful with
> some given hardware provided that you're reasonable about detecting
> requirements, and that you don't place stronger requirements than are
> actulaly needed by your package.
>
> --Sam
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