Bug#1149863: RM: libalien-wxwidgets-perl [s390x] -- RoQA; depends on webkit2gtk which no longer supports big-endian

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sat Oct 3 20:37:53 BST 2026


Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: libalien-wxwidgets-perl at packages.debian.org, debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:libalien-wxwidgets-perl
Control: block 1148038 by -1
Control: block -1 by 1054278
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.

libalien-wxwidgets-perl depends on WebKitGTK. It has one 
reverse-dependency, libwx-perl, whose removal I already requested; 
please remove that first. Removing it will also make 
libwx-scintilla-perl unbuildable on s390x, but that seems OK since 
libwx-scintilla-perl is Architecture: all.

>smcv at coccia ~ % dak rm --no-action --rdep-check --partial --no-arch-all-rdeps -as390x libalien-wxwidgets-perl
...
># Broken Depends:
>libwx-perl: libwx-perl
>
># Broken Build-Depends:
>libwx-perl: libalien-wxwidgets-perl (0.69+dfsg-8~ >=)
>libwx-scintilla-perl: libalien-wxwidgets-perl

Thanks,
    smcv



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