[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#696213: acpid: Please use dh_auto_configure for cross-build support

[Steve Langasek]

Package: acpid
Version: 1:2.0.17-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu raring ubuntu-patch

Dear maintainers,

In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to the acpid package to enable
cross-building.  The dh_auto_configure command has built-in support for
cross-building with autoconf, but your debian/rules bypasses this in order
to pass additional CFLAGS.  This patch reworks the approach to use the newer
DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_{APPEND,PREPEND} interfaces and avoid overriding
dh_auto_configure at all.

Note that debhelper compat level 9 is required in order for
dh_auto_configure to consider the dpkg-buildflags output.  If this is not
acceptable, you can get a similar result by invoking dh_auto_configure --
CFLAGS=$(...).

The changelog entry for this Ubuntu upload is:

  * Bump to debhelper compat level 9 and use the
    DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_{APPEND_PREPEND} options to change flags, trusting
    dh_auto_configure to do the right thing, so that we get support for
    cross-compilation and other niceties.

Please consider applying this patch in Debian,

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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