Public bug reported:

[SRU Justification]
libplist currently fails to build on armhf with bus errors due to unaligned 
access, making this not currently security supportable as of 18.04 release.  
Since this library is seeded on all desktop images I am not looking to have 
this included during the freeze but am making it an SRU instead.

[Test case]
If the package builds from source on all architectures, it has passed its test 
suite showing that the new code works on all architectures and produces correct 
results.

[Regression potential]
It is possible there may be performance regressions on some other little-endian 
architectures besides armhf as a result of this change to the byte swap 
implementation.  I do not think this would be the case.  I don't know if this 
code path is performance-sensitive.

** Affects: libplist (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  libplist FTBFS on armhf with bus errors

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