[pkg-crosswire-devel] Bug#1148288: RM: xiphos [s390x] -- RoQA; depends on webkit2gtk which no longer supports big-endian

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reopen -1

On Fri, 18 Sep 2026 at 19:15:27 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>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 is one of the leaf packages that will need to be removed from s390x
>as a result.
>
>>smcv at coccia ~ % dak rm --no-action --no-arch-all-rdeps --rdep-check --partial -as390x xiphos
>...
>>No dependency problem found.

On Fri, 18 Sep 2026 at 19:39:04 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System forwarded:
>Subject: Bug#1148288: fixed in xiphos 4.5.0+dfsg1-1
...
>   * Prevent building on big endian (Closes: #1148288)

Thanks, but my bug report was a request to the ftp team (cc'd to the 
maintainer for information), not a request to modify the package. 
Individual package maintainers can't remove outdated binaries from the 
archive. Even if the package stops being buildable on s390x, the old 
binaries stay until the ftp team removes them:

% rmadison xiphos
...
xiphos     | 4.4.0+dfsg1-1 | unstable       | source, s390x
...
xiphos     | 4.5.0+dfsg1-1 | unstable       | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, loong64, ppc64el, riscv64

Reopening the bug to ask the ftp team to clean up the old binaries.

When the new webkit2gtk is uploaded to unstable, src:xiphos would have 
become BD-Uninstallable on s390x anyway, so source changes in src:xiphos 
weren't really necessary.

     smcv