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

[Alberto Garcia]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 10:57:31AM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> My opinion is that this should be sent upstream (not to Google,
> because it's unlikely to be accepted, but to WebKitGTK) and someone
> would need to commit to maintain it there. The WebKitGTK team does
> not have resources for that.

I forgot to mention: WebKit is expected to start requiring a working
Swift toolchain in the future (it's unclear when exactly, but possibly
during 2027).

At this point swiftlang in Debian only supports amd64 and arm64, so
having Skia won't be enough.

More details here:

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/09/msg00139.html

Berto