On Sat, 2026-09-19 at 10:47 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 at 09:43:41 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > it seems that libgepub is for reading ebooks (and generating thumbnails of > > it) > > so maybe we can drop the relevant plugin from s390x as well, so we > > wouldn't > > need to totally remove tumbler from there > > If it's straightforward to disable the libgepub plugin on big-endian and > that can be done soon, then that would be fine, and you can close this > bug as no longer needed.
The build-dep is easy to avoid but special-casing the debian/tumbler-plugins- extra.install isn't really fun. I don't think you can easily ignore a file if it doesn't exist, you have to remove it from the install file and then do a dh_install -X for every relevant architecture... > > If the ftp team removes tumbler from s390x, and then you make it > buildable on s390x (without WebKitGTK), then your new upload will undo > the removal, so it's harmless either way. What matters is that the > removal of webkit2gtk from s390x gets unblocked reasonably soon, so that > the webkit2gtk maintainers can take the new upstream release from > experimental and re-upload it to unstable before the next serious > security vulnerability happens. > > > I'm unsure if there's any Xfce user > > on s390x though so maybe it's not really worth it > > Yes, that had been my reasoning - my understanding is that s390x > machines are expensive mainframes designed for non-interactive batch > processing, so it seems highly unlikely that anyone is using them to run > a desktop environment, manage their media collection, read GNOME > documentation, read RSS feeds or any of the other things that can be > done with the packages whose removal I've proposed. > > Nothing seems to have a hard dependency on tumbler - I assume there's > some XFCE metapackage that Recommends it? If so, it'll still be possible > to install XFCE on s390x, just with reduced functionality. > > Indeed, I guess if people are actually running Xfce under s390x, not having thumbnailing is a small thing to lose. Let's have it removed on big endian arches, I guess it's the simplest thing. Thanks for the bug anyway! Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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