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?

Or, does libalien-wxwidgets-perl work somewhat gracefully if the web view
library is missing, with non-webview-based applications like
needrestart-session working normally?

If a reduced-functionality build is not feasible and it's
all-or-nothing, then libalien-wxwidgets-perl and libwx-perl will have to
be removed from s390x completely, which will involve removing
significantly more packages.

It looks as though the only two packages that actually use Wx::WebView
are chordpro and eekboek, both Architecture: all. I think it's probably
acceptable for these two packages to regress on s390x, which is not a
desktop platform. Removing libwx-perl from s390x completely would have a
larger impact, including breaking the dependencies of unifont-bin, which
is required by debian-installer.

    smcv

If #1054278 in unifont can be fixed, then it looks as though it would be
sufficient to remove the binary packages built by:

* libalien-wxwidgets-perl
* libwx-glcanvas-perl
* libwx-perl
* libwx-scintilla-perl

from s390x. This would make chordpro, eekboek, kephra, libdemeter-perl,
libwx-glcanvas-perl, libwx-perl-datawalker-perl,
libwx-perl-processstream-perl and needrestart-session unbuildable or
uninstallable on s390x, but those packages can be ignored because
they're Architecture: all.

A preview of what we would have to ask the ftp team to do:

Hello,

Bug #1148235 in libalien-wxwidgets-perl 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/perl-team/modules/packages/libalien-wxwidgets-perl/-/commit/3464eaff232099ed24b6abbccc1531722087c8e4
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disable webview support on big-endian architectures, where webkit2gtk

is no longer available (Closes: #1148235).
------------------------------------------------------------------------

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1148235

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

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libalien-wxwidgets-perl, 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 1148235@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> (supplier of updated libalien-wxwidgets-perl package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:01:29 +0200
Source: libalien-wxwidgets-perl
Architecture: source
Version: 0.69+dfsg-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org>
Closes: 1148235
Changes:
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 .
   * Team upload.
   * Disable webview support on big-endian architectures, where webkit2gtk
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   * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.7.4.
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