Bug#1149633: RM: openjfx [s390x] -- RoQA; indirectly depends on webkit2gtk which no longer supports big-endian
Simon McVittie
smcv at debian.org
Thu Oct 1 20:50:43 BST 2026
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: openjfx at packages.debian.org, debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:openjfx
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.
Removing openjfx would make some Architecture: all packages unbuildable
on s390x, but that seems relatively harmless.
>smcv at coccia ~ % dak rm --no-action --rdep-check --partial
>--no-arch-all-rdeps -as390x openjfx
...
># Broken Build-Depends:
>controlsfx: openjfx (21.0.12+3 >=)
>pdfsam: openjfx (11 >=)
>triplea: openjfx
Thanks,
smcv
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