Disable WebKit integration (--html option)

This adds several "heavy" dependencies, notably WebKit itself, but also
video and spellchecking among others, which are undesired for a simple
interactive dialog.

The WebKit feature is disabled by default upstream, and several major
distributions (including at least the Fedora/Red Hat family, Arch and
openSUSE) don't enable it in their packaging, so portable software
cannot rely on this option being available. According to
codesearch.debian.net, none of the packages with a dependency on zenity
use the --html option.

The beginning of the Debian 13 cycle seems is a good time to make this
sort of potentially disruptive change; most likely nobody will notice
this feature going away, but if we get bug reports, we can consider
other options such as having a zenity-minimal package without HTML
support, or having a zenity-full package with it.

Closes: #777608, #942362

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 9f4dfd23..00f22caa 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,14 +3,11 @@
 export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
 export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,defs
 
-ifeq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH), hurd-i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 sh4))
-	ENABLE_WEBKIT = -Dwebkitgtk=true
-endif
-
 %:
 	dh $@
 
 override_dh_auto_configure:
 	dh_auto_configure -- \
-		$(ENABLE_WEBKIT) \
-		-Dlibnotify=true
+		-Dlibnotify=true \
+		-Dwebkitgtk=false \
+		${NULL}