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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