Bug#1148681: RM: wpewebkit [s390x] -- RoQA; wpewebkit no longer supports big-endian

Alberto Garcia berto at igalia.com
Mon Sep 21 23:27:13 BST 2026


Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: wpewebkit at packages.debian.org, debian-s390 at lists.debian.org, debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:wpewebkit
User: ftp.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
User: debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Usertags: s390x
User: debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Usertags: s390x

Starting from version 2.54.0, wpewebkit and webkit2gtk no longer
support big-endian architectures due to their usage of Skia and their
removal of the Cairo backend:

   https://wpewebkit.org/blog/2026-09-16-wpewebkit-2.54.html

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

As a result, there is not need to keep building any of the wpe
packages (libwpe, wpebackend-fdo, wpewebkit) on s390x and they can be
removed from the archive.

The s390x builds of the only existing reverse dependencies (cog,
gstreamer1.0-wpe) have already been removed (#1148545 and #1148544).



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