[Bug 1970521] [NEW] [SRU] boinc-client crashes when started with core dump on Xubuntu 22.04

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[ Impact ]

boinc-client is completely unusable on older CPU which does not have avx like a Celeron CPU.
It will crash immediately if run on old CPU, but will run without any problem on newer CPUs.

[ Test Plan ]

It should be done on both types of CPUs, one which has AVX, and one which does not have AVX.
If using qemu then "-cpu Conroe-v1" will emulate Celeron CPU without AVX.

Confirm with the command "lscpu" and check the flags if "avx" is listed
or not.

Commands to execute for testing on both CPUs:

1. Install boinc
2. Execute "boinc" from a terminal

If the package is not fixed then it will fail to start.

[ Where problems could occur ]

There is no change in the code and is only modifying debian/rules so
that the built binary does not have any machine instruction for AVX. It
will result in a different executable machine code but chances of
regression due to this is very low.

[ Other Info ]

This change is from Debian and is part of Ubuntu from Manctic onwards. There has been no reported regression due to this change.
The Debian change is at: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-boinc-team/boinc/-/commit/a0611c2bc86864428337b07b382e4d5cf823b95d

[ Original Bug Description ]

lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release:	22.04

apt-cache policy boinc-client
boinc-client:
  Installed: 7.18.1+dfsg-4
  Candidate: 7.18.1+dfsg-4
  Version table:
 *** 7.18.1+dfsg-4 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected boinc-client to start; it crashed immediately with a core
dump.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: boinc-client 7.18.1+dfsg-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Wed Apr 27 15:04:19 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-24 (854 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: boinc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-24 (3 days ago)

** Affects: boinc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: boinc (Ubuntu Jammy)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug jammy
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[SRU] boinc-client crashes when started with core dump on Xubuntu 22.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970521
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