Symlinking debian's /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libabiword-2.9.so to /usr/lib doesn't fix anything, as you already guessed.
And no, I never used debian build system's devscripts before, so thanks for the info on how to begin dealing with them. An attempt to 'debuild -us -uc -b' (after 'dget -ux ...') gave me dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (used by debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/s5.so: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/username/Development/abiword/DEBIAN/abiword-2.9.2+svn20120213' dh_shlibdeps -O--parallel dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (used by debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/s5.so). dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/abiword.substvars debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/bmp.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/gdict.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/mswrite.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/google.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/loadbindings.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/t602.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/wpg.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/hancom.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/ots.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/opendocument.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/mht.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/freetranslation.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/passepartout.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/garble.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/openwriter.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/command.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/paint.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/pdf.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/sdw.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/hrtext.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/babelfish.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/epub.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/clarisworks.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/collab.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/s5.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/iscii.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/gimp.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/mif.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/eml.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/wmf.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/pdb.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/wml.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/presentation.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/kword.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/xslfo.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/opml.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/urldict.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/openxml.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/wikipedia.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/applix.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/docbook.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/latex.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/aiksaurus.so debian/abiword/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/abiword-2.9/plugins/wordperfect.so debian/abiword/usr/bin/abiword returned exit code 2 make: *** [binary] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 debuild: fatal error at line 1350: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b failed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS+=hardening=-all, shall I export it before doing dget? (As I see, it's dget who does apply patches.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org