Bug#359909: subversion: FTBFS: Ruby test fails

[Daniel Schepler]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.3.0-5
Severity: serious

From my pbuilder build log (on i386):

...
cd /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/BUILD/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby; \
          /usr/bin/ruby1.8 -I /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby \
            /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby/test/run-test.rb \
            --verbose=normal
Loaded suite test
Started
.................................................................E.....................................................
Finished in 303.083982 seconds.

  1) Error:
test_apply(SvnDeltaTest):
ArgumentError: NULL pointer given
    /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby/svn/util.rb:58:in `svn_txdelta_apply_wrapper'
    /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby/svn/util.rb:58:in `txdelta_apply_wrapper'
    /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby/svn/delta.rb:51:in `apply'
    /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/subversion/bindings/swig/ruby/test/test_delta.rb:65:in `test_apply'

119 tests, 613 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors
make[1]: *** [check-swig-rb] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/BUILD'
###################################################
Testsuite failed, 'tests.log' follows:
... [no FAIL: here, just XFAIL:]
PASS:  lt-strings-reps-test 8: create and copy a string
CLEANUP: /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.3.0/BUILD/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs_base/test-repo-copy-string
END: strings-reps-test

make: *** [install] Error 1

This seems to be very reproducible here; I've tried building every Debian
release in the 1.3.0 series and never once gotten a successful build.
Looking at the buildd logs, it seems there are certain architectures there
too which reproduce this bug every time.
-- 
Daniel Schepler