As this has been pending since April and is FTBFS on arm64, I have NMUed this package with the attached simple patch to update with autoreconf. Hope that's OK.
Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/
diff -u dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/changelog dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/changelog --- dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/changelog +++ dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +dvdauthor (0.7.0-1.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Use dh-autoreconf to support new architectures (Closes: 727364) + + -- Wookey <woo...@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:23:16 +0000 + dvdauthor (0.7.0-1.2) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. diff -u dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/rules dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/rules --- dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/rules +++ dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/rules @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ config.status: configure dh_testdir # Add here commands to configure the package. - # aclocal-1.7 && autoconf + dh_autoreconf ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc build: unpack config-stamp build-stamp @@ -63,13 +63,7 @@ # 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 install: build diff -u dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/control dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/control --- dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/control +++ dvdauthor-0.7.0/debian/control @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: otherosfs Priority: optional Maintainer: Marc Leeman <marc.lee...@gmail.com> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7.0.0), docbook-to-man, libdvdread-dev, libpng-dev, libxml2-dev, flex, bison, libmagick++-dev, docbook-utils, quilt, libfribidi-dev +Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7.0.0), dh-autoreconf, docbook-to-man, libdvdread-dev, libpng-dev, libxml2-dev, flex, bison, libmagick++-dev, docbook-utils, quilt, libfribidi-dev Standards-Version: 3.9.1 Package: dvdauthor