I have NMUed this package in order to fix it for the new architectures, and unblock abiword. Using the patch filed in July.
Attached is my (almost identical) NMU diff. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/
diff -u aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/rules aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/rules --- aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/rules +++ aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/rules @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ #major=`ls src/.libs/lib*.so.* | \ # awk '{if (match($$0,/\.so\.[0-9]+$$/)) print substr($$0,RSTART+4)}'` -config.status: configure +config.status: dh_testdir + AUTOMAKE="automake --foreign" dh_autoreconf # Add here commands to configure the package. ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info \ --enable-static @@ -54,12 +55,7 @@ # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. [ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean -ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" - cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub -endif -ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" - cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess -endif + dh_autoreconf_clean dh_clean diff -u aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/compat aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/compat --- aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/compat +++ aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/compat @@ -1 +1 @@ -4 +9 diff -u aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/control aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/control --- aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/control +++ aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/control @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mha...@debian.org> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.2.21), libgtk2.0-dev +Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.2.21), libgtk2.0-dev, dh-autoreconf Standards-Version: 3.8.0 Package: libaiksaurus-1.2-dev diff -u aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/changelog aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/changelog --- aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/changelog +++ aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +aiksaurus (1.2.1+dev-0.12-6.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * autoreconf on build to suport new architectures (Closes: 756031) + + -- Wookey <woo...@debian.org> Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:36:19 +0000 + aiksaurus (1.2.1+dev-0.12-6.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. only in patch2: unchanged: --- aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12.orig/configure.ac +++ aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/configure.ac @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ LT_CURRENT=`expr $AIK_MICRO_VERSION - $AIK_INTERFACE_AGE` LT_REVISION=$AIK_INTERFACE_AGE LT_AGE=`expr $AIK_BINARY_AGE - $AIK_INTERFACE_AGE` +m4_pattern_allow([LT_CURRENT]) +m4_pattern_allow([LT_REVISION]) +m4_pattern_allow([LT_AGE]) LT_AIK_VERSION_INFO="$LT_CURRENT:$LT_REVISION:$LT_AGE" only in patch2: unchanged: --- aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12.orig/gtk/src/Makefile.am +++ aiksaurus-1.2.1+dev-0.12/gtk/src/Makefile.am @@ -44,6 +44,6 @@ bin_PROGRAMS = gaiksaurus gaiksaurus_SOURCES = gtkAiksaur.t.cpp -gaiksaurus_LDADD = libAiksaurusGTK.la +gaiksaurus_LDADD = libAiksaurusGTK.la $(GTK_LIBS) EXTRA_DIST = $(OTHERHEADERS)