Bug#921274: teeworlds: baseline violation on i386

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 12:00:48PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> Control: severity -1 important
> 
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 22:39:02 +0100 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:35:22 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Source: teeworlds
> > > Version: 0.7.2-2
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Tags: patch
> > > 
> > > SSE is not part of the i386 baseline, fix attached.
> > 
> > Could you go into more detail why this is release-critical and what
> > issue we are trying to solve?
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> since I have not heard back from you, I am going to downgrade the
> severity to important. Note that I'm still willing to fix bugs in
> teeworlds but I need more information what problem we are trying to
> solve. Teeworlds builds and runs fine on i386.
>...

Teeworlds runs fine on some i386 machines.

Individual packages cannot just use non-baseline features like
SSE or AVX without runtime detection, this results in nothing
but crashes on hardware officially supported by Debian.

> Your patch also changes
> the upstream build system. Did you talk to upstream about this? What did
> they say?

I assume the maintainer is best suited for communicaing with upstream.

cu
Adrian

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