[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1038447: librsvg: FTBFS on big-endian architectures: multiple test regressions since September 2022

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 at 13:40:09 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> librsvg 2.54.5+dfsg-2 failed to build on s390x, powerpc and ppc64 with
> multiple test failures. At first glance, they seem to be the same test
> failures, meaning this is about endianness rather than any specific
> architecture.
> 
> 2.54.5+dfsg-2 only contains packaging changes and no code changes,
> so I strongly suspect (but have not actually proved) that rebuilding
> 2.54.5+dfsg-1 with current versions of its dependencies would also
> exhibit the same test failures, similar to #1038252 on i386.

I rebuilt librsvg in bookworm on the s390x porterbox zelenka, and can
confirm that 2.54.5+dfsg-1 now fails in bookworm too. So something must
have triggered a regression between September 2022 and now.

    smcv