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From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
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Subject: libwx-perl: depends on libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev which needs to be
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Package: libwx-perl
Version: 1:0.9932-10
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, 
libwx-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 libwx-perl be configured to have partial functionality on s390x, so 
that all current features except for the web view remain available?

Or, does libwx-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
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