As announced in #1148038, new upstream releases of WebKitGTK no longer
support big-endian architectures.

meta-gnome currently pulls in some WebKitGTK-dependent packages, notably
evolution, yelp and manuals. These dependencies will need to become
something like

    yelp [!s390x !hppa !m68k !powerpc !ppc64 !sparc64],

to allow meta-gnome to continue to be installable on s390x, and ideally
also the big-endian -ports architectures.

The alternative to this would be to discuss with the release team and
make sure that they can accommodate the GNOME metapackages, and
therefore task-gnome-desktop, becoming uninstallable on s390x. In the
past this has been a problem, because britney has a concept of "faux
packages" which ensure that nothing can migrate if it would make a
debian-installer task uninstallable, but perhaps this has been resolved
now?

    smcv

Yes, we should not need the alternative for this case because RHEL 10
provides a working GNOME desktop without webkitgtk.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Hello,

Bug #1148042 in meta-gnome3 reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/meta-gnome/-/commit/603db563a48909c76460ffdba04eb81a16b7a960
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Limit WebKitGTK-dependent apps to little-endian architectures

This assumes that evolution-data-server will continue to be built
on big-endian architectures, but with reduced functionality (#1148040).

Closes: #1148042
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(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1148042

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
meta-gnome, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1148042@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> (supplier of updated meta-gnome package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:46:33 +0100
Source: meta-gnome
Architecture: source
Version: 50+2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Closes: 1148042
Changes:
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 .
   * Team upload
   * Limit WebKitGTK-dependent apps to little-endian architectures.
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