Bug#1068509: liferea: autopkgtest on s390x suggests liferea is partially broken there

Package: liferea
Version: 1.15.6-1
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertag: s390x

Hi,

Today I was debugging the failing autopkgtest of liferea, a graphical 
rss reader, on s390x [1]. Previously I already worked around another 
crash that happens on s390x only. Although I wonder how useful a desktop 
application like liferea is on such an architecture, I tried to get it 
to work. Luckily dogtail (the framework I use to drive the test) has 
screenshot functionality and I noticed that after requesting the help or 
the FAQ, there is no text in the window that on other architectures 
shows the content of the help/FAQ. Once the tests for 1.15.6-2 or higher 
run on ci.debian.net, the screenshots will be part of the artifacts tar 
that can be downloaded from the web page.

I'm suspecting that something in the lower layers is broken, but I have 
absolutely no evidence. Filing this bug just for visibility. For 
avoidance of doubt, I consider here 3 things (which I suspect are related):
1) the crash in the "liferea.dump()" call is highly suspicious
2) the button for the Help should be the same across architectures
3) the screenshots for the help and FAQ should show the content

Paul

[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/liferea/testing/s390x/

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