Hello, > the TL;DR version of this e-mail is that at some point in the future > we won't be able to keep updating WebKitGTK on some of Debian's > official architectures. This is happening right now in the case of > s390x, but others will follow later.
I'm not okay with this decision and the argument provided do not convince me. While Skia does not officially big-endian targets, it definitely works there. Oracle is shipping Firefox for Solaris SPARC with Skia enabled and they're providing custom patches to make Skia work [1]. Also, Swift definitely supports more architectures than just x86_64 and AArch64 as can be seen from the source code [2]. There was also no effort made to reach out to porters to ask for help, it was just unilaterally decided that WebKit2Gtk disables the build on big-endian architectures. If Debian just continues this trend of disabling architectures so quickly, we will soon end up with a distribution that is supported on x86_64 and AArch64 only and I'm really not sure whether this is something we want. Adrian PS: I'm not subscribed to the list, please keep me CC'ed. > [1] > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches > [2] > https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/058908fc9fa07ddddf799d1a7ece0e6d83b59046/utils/swift_build_support/swift_build_support/targets.py#L280 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
