On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 at 08:29:11 +1200, Olly Betts wrote:
There may be a gotcha here if any of the arch=all package contents vary
when building without webview. I'm particularly thinking that
wx3.2-headers and wx3.2-doc might.
For the headers, perhaps the webview-related header files could move to
libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev, with an appropriate versioned Breaks/Replaces?
That would match the more common practice of having headers in the -dev
package (which I assume wxwidgets has only not done for size reasons).
For the documentation, I think it would be fine if the -doc package was
effectively only buildable on little-endian architectures:
----8<----
Build-Depends:
...,
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev [!s390x !hppa !m68k !powerpc !ppc64 !sparc64],
...
Build-Depends-Indep:
...,
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev <!nodoc>,
...
----8<----
and in debian/rules something like this, so the web view is enabled if
we are building documentation and/or the architecture is little-endian:
----8<----
built_binaries := $(shell dh_listpackages)
configure_options :=
ifneq ($(filter %-doc,$(built_binaries))$(filter
little,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_ENDIAN)),)
configure_options += --enable-webview --enable-webviewwebkit
else
configure_options += --disable-webview --disable-webviewwebkit
endif
override_dh_auto_configure:
dh_auto_configure -- ... $(configure_options)
----8<----
Or if you would prefer the webview-related header files to stay in
-headers, they could probably even use the same technique, with
$(filter %-doc %-headers,$(built_binaries))
and removing the <!nodoc> annotation.
smcv
