tags 806627 + patch thanks I would suggest disabling the tests when we are only building arch-independent packages.
Patch attached. Thanks.
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
# # export DH_VERBOSE=1
+override_dh_auto_test-indep:
+
override_dh_auto_build-indep:
$(MAKE) -C doc pdf
