[From nobody Sat Oct 17 09:37:07 2026 Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 18 Sep 2026 09:48:11 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2024-03-25) on buxtehude.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-118.2 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, BODY_INCLUDES_PACKAGE,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FROMDEVELOPER,HAS_PACKAGE,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_IN_DKIM_WELCOMELIST autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 16; hammy, 150; neutral, 99; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:stravin, 0.000-+--H*RT:sk:stravin, 0.000-+--Hx-spam-relays-external:311, 0.000-+--H*RT:311, 0.000-+--H*RT:108 Return-path: <smcv@debian.org> Received: from stravinsky.debian.org ([2001:41b8:202:deb::311:108]:52150) by buxtehude.debian.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from <smcv@debian.org>) id 1x7VCV-002l4y-1G for submit@bugs.debian.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:48:11 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=debian.org; s=smtpauto.stravinsky; h=X-Debian-User:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: Subject:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:In-Reply-To:References; bh=fdreYkWpKbvS1IX79D/Zwt3NmNhjhYH/94WUxypEECY=; b=avqe1rB5/VLgd68sfqORHWP7vX uJoUG1omBzn+GfoZwqEO6WGhWSSgut2wvQfYs6HW7/SbtFfFbfbAfdlIz5UWCsx9HM22Glo3mA03p 6PRHBBNKpzkNBL0xkuhLgEXBjAyvTQ0jBiVsNVNY+QLMWL8J8eg4nEzIkomM9wTE4Yek/LlhLRrsA 49sKRYxR3P9XkJgQAJGAzN2/NTNhePpLGRoRySA+bCm53XjU5EmV5Pg3LzHvkgFYoV9VIftt5AXvW qAHXmjoTVnyO2d5CBEL0II5Ge7zzZCH44GTA79IcgpI+WlQyRcSO278luFTxJm0UsXBD8Yz3ZNhZv oEKQl1XQ==; Received: from authenticated-user by stravinsky.debian.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from <smcv@debian.org>) id 1x7VCT-006d30-1d for submit@bugs.debian.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:48:09 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:48:08 +0100 From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> Subject: libalien-wxwidgets-perl: depends on libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev which needs to be removed from s390x Message-ID: <aq0I2CYYjWSmWeaq@definition.pseudorandom.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Mutt-Fcc: =.lists.debian/ X-Reportbug-Version: 13.2.0+nmu1 X-Debian-User: smcv Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: libalien-wxwidgets-perl Version: 0.69+dfsg-8 Severity: important Tags: forky sid X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org, webkit2gtk@packages.debian.org User: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Usertags: s390x Control: block 1148041 by -1 As announced in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/09/msg00139.html> and <https://bugs.debian.org/1148038>, new upstream releases of WebKitGTK no longer support big-endian architectures; but we cannot just stop upgrading WebKitGTK, because it's security-sensitive on the architectures where it remains. One part of removing WebKitGTK from s390x (and the big-endian -ports architectures) will be to remove libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev and libwxgtk-webview3.2-1t64 from the affected architectures. However, libalien-wxwidgets-perl currently depends on those packages unconditionally, and will become uninstallable if they are removed. Ideally its Depends and Build-Depends should be reduced so they include something like: libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev [!s390x !hppa !m68k !powerpc !ppc64 !sparc64] so that the package can still be built on s390x, but with reduced functionality. Is that feasible? Can libalien-wxwidgets-perl be configured to have partial functionality on s390x, so that all current features except for the web view remain available? Or, does libalien-wxwidgets-perl work somewhat gracefully if the web view library is missing, with non-webview-based applications like needrestart-session working normally? If a reduced-functionality build is not feasible and it's all-or-nothing, then libalien-wxwidgets-perl and libwx-perl will have to be removed from s390x completely, which will involve removing significantly more packages. It looks as though the only two packages that actually use Wx::WebView are chordpro and eekboek, both Architecture: all. I think it's probably acceptable for these two packages to regress on s390x, which is not a desktop platform. Removing libwx-perl from s390x completely would have a larger impact, including breaking the dependencies of unifont-bin, which is required by debian-installer. smcv ]