Re: Bug#1115385: vlc: FTBFS on powerpc architecture

Adrian,

> On 16 September 2025 at 04:04 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Christian,
> 
>> On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 15:03 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> 
>> There are a lot of e5500 machines (X5000/20 and X5000/40)
>> without AltiVec support and with Debian installed.
> 
> I assume that these machines run the ppc64 port, not the 32-bit powerpc port, aren't they?

They run the 32-bit powerpc port.
We had issues with ppc64 distributions.

> 
> And I'm aware that these machines exist and certainly people are welcome to run Debian on
> these. The question in the end is just how large is that userbase and does it justify
> reducing the performance for the large number of Apple PowerMacs.
> 
> An alternative would certainly be to create a sepate AltiVec-variant of the packages
> in question. At least mplayer does support runtime detection of hardware capabilities,
> as far as I know,

Ubuntu had separate AltiVec variant of packages.

Cheers,
Christian