On Fr, 18 Sep 2026, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: libalien-wxwidgets-perl > Version: 0.69+dfsg-8
> As announced in > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/09/msg00139.html> and > <https://bugs.debian.org/1148038>, new upstream releases of WebKitGTK no > longer support big-endian architectures; but we cannot just stop > upgrading WebKitGTK, because it's security-sensitive on the > architectures where it remains. > > One part of removing WebKitGTK from s390x (and the big-endian -ports > architectures) will be to remove libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev and > libwxgtk-webview3.2-1t64 from the affected architectures. However, > libalien-wxwidgets-perl currently depends on those packages > unconditionally, and will become uninstallable if they are removed. > > Ideally its Depends and Build-Depends should be reduced so they include > something like: > > libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev [!s390x !hppa !m68k !powerpc !ppc64 !sparc64] > > so that the package can still be built on s390x, but with reduced > functionality. Is that feasible? > > Can libalien-wxwidgets-perl be configured to have partial functionality > on s390x, so that all current features except for the web view remain > available? That's possible. In the past libalien-wxwidgets-perl (until 0.69+dfsg-6) was (automatically) build without libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev, since the necessary build-dependency on libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev was missing. I changed this in December 2024 by adding the missing dependency. I'm just preparing a new version, that no longer build-depends on libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev on Big Endian architectures, so these systems fall back to the pre December 2024 behavior. Greetings Roland
