Subject: bug#67829: qtwebengine new failure on i686

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 11:46:37 -0500

Hi Efraim,

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

> Upstream chromium removed support for i686 so that's why it's failing.
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/qt6-webengine/6.6.1%2Bdfsg-1/debian/patches/support-i386.patch/
> https://sources.debian.org/src/qt6-webengine/6.6.1%2Bdfsg-1/debian/patches/disable_32bit_node_check.patch/
> https://sources.debian.org/src/qt6-webengine/6.6.1%2Bdfsg-1/debian/patches/compressing_files.patch/
>
> There's two or three patches we can add to re-enable builds on i686, or
> we can mark it as unsupported.  I don't have a strong opinion either
> way.

If Debian already did the hard work, the best option seems to use their
patches to enable the build on i686 at least :-).  If it becomes to hard
to maintain and they lag on upstream, we could reconsider just marking
it as unsupported.

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Thanks,
Maxim