On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 06:23:26PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > For many years, Altivec enablement has been debated in both ports > (powerpc & ppc64). AFAIR, the consensus is that Altivec should be > disabled by default and either enabled in a separate package (eg. > atlas-altivec) or used through runtime detection (eg. ffmpeg, vlc).
I'm not aware of any of such -altivec packages and stuff like atlas should be compiled from source on the target machine anyway for performance reasons. I did a quick search and I could only find ardour-altivec. Any others? > If a package does enable altivec by default, then that's a bug and a > policy violation. (...) But until that happens, we have to support the > decision, if Firefox is built with altivec enabled (and I don't mean > runtime detection, but failure to run on non-altivec CPUs), then that's > a bug, period. You shouldn't make such statement without actually mentioning the section of the Debian Policy which states that Altivec has to be turned off by default or which makes a generic statement regarding this. Also, powerpc is not a release architecture anymore, so I don't even know how relevant such statements from the Debian Policy would be nowadays. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
