Bug#1101034: Add ppc64el support to qtwebengine

[Patrick Franz <deltaone@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:22:58 -0700 Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> 
wrote:
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> 
> I think the best place to focus your efforts in on upstream Qt 
> WebEngine.  Debian is unlikely to ship support for an architecture in 
> a package as complex as Qt WebEngine if it is not supported upstream.

Whether upstream supports a certain architecture, is not really the 
criterion in Debian to make it work.
i386 isn't supported in qtwebengine, yet we put in some effort to make it 
work. Why ? Because it's only 2 small patches and that is absolutely 
maintainable.

Now, why don't we build qtwebengine for ppc64el ? Chromium has 60 (!!!) 
patches for ppc64el alone. I don't know how many of those would be 
needed for qtwebengine and how many of those need regular rebasing, but 
I have no intention of finding that out on my own.

Adding more architectures to qtwebengine is matter of resources and 
maintainability. Unfortunately, ppc64el is at the wrong end of that 
scale.


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Patrick Franz