Bug#1149591: RM: ninix-kagari [s390x] -- RoQA; depends on webkit2gtk which no longer supports big-endian

[Simon McVittie]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ninix-kagari at packages.debian.org, debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:ninix-kagari
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. The latest WebKitGTK security advisory lists around 200 CVEs, 
so it seems dangerous to hold it back to an older version for longer 
than is strictly necessary.

ninix-kagari is a desktop mascot (toy) that Depends on ruby-gtk4, which 
is part of ruby-gnome, which is one of the packages blocking the new 
webkit2gtk version. I find it very difficult to imagine that anyone is 
genuinely running this program on a room-sized IBM mainframe, so I 
suggest that we remove it from s390x in order to simplify the dependency 
graph and clear the way for potential removal of ruby-gnome.

It is a leaf package:

>smcv at coccia ~ % dak rm --no-action --rdep-check --partial -as390x ninix-kagari
...
>No dependency problem found.

and is already not present in testing as a result of #1141018.

Thanks,
    smcv