Bug#1079545: gtk4: test regression in 4.15.x: css/parser/math2.css test fails on armel

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 at 13:01:17 +0000, Martin wrote:
> My company is still a heavy user of glib and gobject on armel. But
> certainly not of GTK. Is there still any use case for GTK on armel?

Probably not, but Debian has never really managed to do partial
architectures, which is why I felt obliged to spend time on this bug in
the first place. At the moment, my understanding of the release team
policy and infrastructure is that it is not possible to have a release
architecture where not all tasksel tasks are installable.

Even if we could ignore installability of task-gnome-desktop and other
GTK-dependent task metapackages on armel, if GTK was removed from armel,
then I suspect that many other packages would need to be modified to
add architecture conditions, so that they're still built on armel but
without GTK support.

    smcv