aarch64:pkgsrc/misc/mate-utils build failed

[ebijun]

GEN crh/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/pkg/bin/itstool", line 1598, in
doc.merge_translations(translations, opts.lang, strict=opts.strict)
File "/usr/pkg/bin/itstool", line 986, in merge_translations
lcnode.setProp(attr, origlang)
File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 3590, in setProp
if ret is None:raise treeError('xmlSetProp() failed')
libxml2.treeError: xmlSetProp() failed

[bjjl]

Found a solution for this? Same problem here...

[egnappahz]

This really is a cool bug. I have to go to the source dir and clean it out and then it works.
Since this is still not fixed after a year, This really is itstool having some major cleaning issues. Though they seem to be blaming python for it.