Bug#1149632: RM: scilab [s390x] -- RoQA; indirectly depends on webkit2gtk which no longer supports big-endian

[Simon McVittie]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: scilab at packages.debian.org, debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:scilab
Control: block 1148038 by -1
User: ftp.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
User: debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Usertags: s390x

WebKitGTK can no longer work on big-endian architectures as a result of an 
upstream move from Cairo to Skia, as announced in 
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/09/msg00139.html> and #1148038.

This package depends on swt4-gtk, which could in principle have only its 
WebKitGTK-dependent binary package removed from s390x (#1148244) but 
there doesn't appear to have been any progress towards this. As a result 
I'm now suggesting that the packages that depend on swt4-gtk are removed 
from s390x; this would temporarily reduce the range of available GUI 
packages on s390x, but they can come back in the next upload if #1148244 
is fixed, and s390x mainframes are not really a platform where it makes 
sense to run GUIs anyway.

>smcv at coccia ~ % dak rm --no-action --rdep-check --partial --no-arch-all-rdeps -as390x scilab
...
>No dependency problem found.

Thanks,
    smcv