Bug#1152919: webkit2gtk: Fixing webkit2gtk on big-endian targets

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Source: webkit2gtk
Version: 2.54.2-2
Severity: normal
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Hello,

I just noticed that webkit2gtk was disabled on big-endian targets without reaching
out to porters asking for help and I think this change should be reverted.

The reason for disabling big-endian targets was that Skia is supposedly not supported
on big-endian targets. However, Skia has always had some issues on big-endian targets
but there were always easy to fix.

Oracle Solaris always ships a recent version of Firefox also for SPARC and there are
definitely patches for fixing Skia on big-endian patches [1].

Please let's work out fixing Skia and webkit2gtk on big-endian targets and not just
disable such an important package so many architectures for just a bug that can
be fixed.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches

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