Christian Perrier wrote:
> Thanks for reporting. I forwarded this upstream in a private mail (in
> French) to Ollivier Robert. It can't hurt to have him update his
> provided files.
>
> Still, I think this comes from dropping cdbs and using dh7 and a
> minimal rules file....and thus might have worse consequences than
> FTBFS on a non release architecture. We could very welll FTBFS on
> release architectures....
>
> In the past, I did this to the package:
>
> * Switch to cdbs for the package build. This allows updating
> config.{sub|guess} at build time to avoid FTBFS on recent
> architectures. Closes: #299214, #342382
>
> Joey, are there recommended solutions to do the same with dh7-style
> debian/rules files? Of course, solutions well suited for a lazy
> maintainer like me would be the best ones..:-)
There is no debhelper command that handles that, but it is not very hard
to do using override targets:
override_dh_auto_configure:
ln -sf /usr/share/misc/config.sub .
ln -sf /usr/share/misc/config.guess .
dh_auto_configure
override_dh_auto_clean:
dh_auto_clean
rm -f config.sub config.guess
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