tags 727322 + patch
tags 727322 + pending
thanks

Dear maintainer,

This bug has been pending for some time, and needs fixing for new
ports, including arm64 which is building now:
(http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid).

So I've prepared an NMU for argtable2 (versioned as 12-1.1) and
uploaded it to DELAYED/7. Please feel free to tell me if I should
delay it longer.

Discussion on debian-devel revealed consensus that the right way to
ensure successful builds on all new architectures was to autoreconf
packages, so that method has been used to fix this bug. This works for
all arches, even those that need libtool changes, and will continue to
work into the future without an update as each new arch comes along.
(Discussion at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/04/msg00383.html, thread
starting at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/04/msg00342.html

As you can see this works fine on this package, and is a very simple
patch. 

Cheers.
diff -Nru argtable2-12/debian/changelog argtable2-12/debian/changelog
--- argtable2-12/debian/changelog	2010-08-22 14:34:10.000000000 +0100
+++ argtable2-12/debian/changelog	2014-06-23 00:08:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+argtable2 (12-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Use dh-autoreconf in build to support new architectures (Closes: #727322)
+
+ -- Chen Baozi <baoz...@gmail.com>  Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:48:59 +0800
+
 argtable2 (12-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream version
diff -Nru argtable2-12/debian/control argtable2-12/debian/control
--- argtable2-12/debian/control	2010-08-22 14:38:05.000000000 +0100
+++ argtable2-12/debian/control	2014-06-03 07:48:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Source: argtable2
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Shachar Shemesh <shac...@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), autotools-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), autotools-dev, dh-autoreconf
 Standards-Version: 3.9.1.0
 Homepage: http://argtable.sourceforge.net
 Section: libs
diff -Nru argtable2-12/debian/rules argtable2-12/debian/rules
--- argtable2-12/debian/rules	2010-08-22 14:32:27.000000000 +0100
+++ argtable2-12/debian/rules	2014-06-03 07:48:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 major=0
 
 %:
-	dh $@
+	dh $@ --with autoreconf
 
 clean:
 	[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean

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