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From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: meta-gnome: disable webkit2gtk dependencies on big-endian
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Source: meta-gnome
Severity: normal
Tags: forky sid
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org
User: debian-s390@lists.debian.org
Usertags: s390x
Control: block 1148038 by -1

As announced in #1148038, new upstream releases of WebKitGTK no longer 
support big-endian architectures.

meta-gnome currently pulls in some WebKitGTK-dependent packages, notably 
evolution, yelp and manuals. These dependencies will need to become 
something like

    yelp [!s390x !hppa !m68k !powerpc !ppc64 !sparc64],

to allow meta-gnome to continue to be installable on s390x, and ideally 
also the big-endian -ports architectures.

The alternative to this would be to discuss with the release team and 
make sure that they can accommodate the GNOME metapackages, and 
therefore task-gnome-desktop, becoming uninstallable on s390x. In the 
past this has been a problem, because britney has a concept of "faux 
packages" which ensure that nothing can migrate if it would make a 
debian-installer task uninstallable, but perhaps this has been resolved 
now?

    smcv
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