I tested this patch on arm64 and it works fine. As this bug has been
pending since April I've NMUed this package with the attached (almost
identical) patch.
Wookey
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diff -u hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/control hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/control
--- hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/control
+++ hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
Heikki Henriksen <heik...@gmail.com>
Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.90~),
debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2),
+ dh-autoreconf,
dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.16),
+ gtk-doc-tools,
libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.6.0),
libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.6.0),
libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.14),
diff -u hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/changelog hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/changelog
--- hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/changelog
+++ hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+hippo-canvas (0.3.1-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Use dh-autoreconf to build for new architectures (Closes: 744059)
+
+ -- Wookey <woo...@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 20:08:36 +0000
+
hippo-canvas (0.3.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
diff -u hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/rules hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/rules
--- hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/rules
+++ hippo-canvas-0.3.1/debian/rules
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
+include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/autoreconf.mk
binary-install/python-hippocanvas::
find debian/$(cdbs_curpkg)/usr/lib -type f -regex '.*\.l?a' -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
