Regression of eog and rsvg-convert. No longer renders SVG containing xlink to png

[Finnian Reilly]

Ubuntu Quantal

I recently did a package update and found that it broke the utility 'rsvg-convert' in package librsvg2-bin. It is now no longer able to render an SVG file containing an embedded png in the xlink tag. An application I am developing, depends on the librsvg2 library, so I noticed this immediately.

Specifically the problem is with the security upgrade from version 2.36.3-0ubuntu1 to version 2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1 of librsvg2 and associated packages.

Extract from /var/log/apt/history.log:

librsvg2-bin:amd64 (2.36.3-0ubuntu1, 2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1)
librsvg2-common:amd64 (2.36.3-0ubuntu1, 2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1)
librsvg2-common:i386 (2.36.3-0ubuntu1, 2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1)
librsvg2-dev:amd64 (2.36.3-0ubuntu1, 2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1)
librsvg2-doc:amd64 (2.36.3-0ubuntu1, 2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1)

TO REPRODUCE:

Example of command that fails to render png image:
   rsvg-convert -f png --background-color cyan banner.svg > cyan-banner.png

(See attached file)

I expect to see this transparent png rendered with a cyan background, instead what I see is just a cyan background with no image.

The problem went away after I downgraded to the prior version of librsvg using dpkg

OTHER AFFECTED APPLICATIONS:
the eog image-viewer (Eye of Gnome)

[Finnian Reilly (finnian-z)]

I have attached an example SVG to illustrate the problem

[Wes (wessjunk)]

This is affecting me also. In my case it is no longer able to render an SVG file containing an embedded SVG in the xlink tag.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[b-ob (b-ob)]

It's affecting all types of images: PNG and SVG, as noted above, but also JPEG and PNM.