On September 18, 2026 4:25:21 PM EDT, Olly Betts <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 10:38:22AM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
>> > 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.
>[...]
>> Good news. The doc, headers, and i18n packages all build identically with
>> and without the webkit -dev package.
>
>That's great.
>
>> The only difference is in the examples
>> package, and only in the top-level Makefile, see below.
>>
>> │ │ ├── ./usr/share/doc/wx3.2-examples/examples/samples/Makefile
>> │ │ │ @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
>> │ │ │ #
>> │ │ │ # Makefile : Builds wxWindows samples for Unix.
>> │ │ │ #
>> │ │ │
>> │ │ │ -SAMPLES_SUBDIRS=animate archive artprov aui calendar caret clipboard
>> collpane combo config console dataview debugrpt dialogs dialup display dnd
>> docview dragimag drawing erase event except exec font fswatcher grid help
>> htlbox html/about html/help html/helpview html/printing html/test
>> html/virtual html/widget html/zip image internat ipc joytest keyboard layout
>> listctrl mdi mediaplayer menu minimal notebook opengl/cube opengl/isosurf
>> opengl/penguin opengl/pyramid popup power preferences printing propgrid
>> render ribbon richtext sashtest scroll shaped sockets sound splash splitter
>> statbar stc svg taborder taskbar text thread toolbar treectrl treelist
>> typetest uiaction validate vscroll webrequest webview widgets wizard
>> wrapsizer xrc
>> │ │ │ +SAMPLES_SUBDIRS=animate archive artprov aui calendar caret clipboard
>> collpane combo config console dataview debugrpt dialogs dialup display dnd
>> docview dragimag drawing erase event except exec font fswatcher grid help
>> htlbox html/about html/help html/helpview html/printing html/test
>> html/virtual html/widget html/zip image internat ipc joytest keyboard layout
>> listctrl mdi mediaplayer menu minimal notebook opengl/cube opengl/isosurf
>> opengl/penguin opengl/pyramid popup power preferences printing propgrid
>> render ribbon richtext sashtest scroll shaped sockets sound splash splitter
>> statbar stc svg taborder taskbar text thread toolbar treectrl treelist
>> typetest uiaction validate vscroll webrequest widgets wizard wrapsizer xrc
>> │ │ │
>>
>> I don't think this is important enough to do anything about (the webview
>> samples are still there).
>
>It means the "architecture-independent" wx3.2-examples is different
>depending on where it is built. I'd thought policy didn't allow that
>though I'm failing to spot anything explicitly about it.
>
>It seems better avoided though and could easily be by adding something
>like this at a suitable place in debian/rules (untested - in particular
>the path is something of a guess):
>
> sed -i 's/webrequest wi/webrequest webview wi/' \
> debian/tmp/wx3.2-examples/examples/samples/Makefile
> # Check it worked.
> grep -w webview debian/tmp/wx3.2-examples/examples/samples/Makefile
>
>That'll be a no-op if webview is already listed, but fixes the file to
>match a build with webview if it isn't. The `grep` avoids it quietly
>failing if a new sample is added that sorts between `webrequest` and
>`wi`.
I was planning to just move the webkit dev package to Build-Depends-Arch.
