Adding some context, I disabled wpe in Ubuntu when we landed the version
that added the option because the backend was new and our rules requires
a review from our security and MIR teams before adding new main depends,
which wasn't properly anticipated and not going to done for the incoming
release of Ubuntu.

I should probably have done that by now but I the wpebackend package
description in Debian states 'WebKit browser engine optimized for
embedded devices' which made me wrongly assume that was not the
preferred backend for a desktop usecase.

Which brings us back to today. The wpebackend package will be added to
our review queue but that's not going to be processed in time for the
incoming LTS so we will need another solution. The mesa upstream report
suggests they might be wanting to add code to handle legacy clients
(which webkitgtk built without wpe seems to be for that usecase?).
Ideally the webkitgtk codepath not using WPE would also be fixed since
that's an official upstream option. Our backup plan is probably to try
to revert the changes from mesa if really needed

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  [jammy regression] webkit apps do not display content (yelp, epiphany,
  gnome-online-accounts etc)

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