diff --git a/testing/py3-zimscraperlib/APKBUILD b/testing/py3-zimscraperlib/APKBUILD
index 57ff81ea02d0f329320a87fb784410a0da58781f..47ef62a7d7755ba057ae10b4605f177c13037779 100644
--- a/testing/py3-zimscraperlib/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/py3-zimscraperlib/APKBUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ pkgver=3.2.0
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Collection of python code to re-use across python-based scrapers"
 url="https://github.com/openzim/python-scraperlib"
-arch="noarch"
+# loongarch64: tests fail
+arch="noarch !loongarch64"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 depends="
 	ffmpeg