I took a look at this one because I thought (incorrectly) that we needed to rebuild the package for a transition in raspbian.
Fixing the failure in this bug report was easy enough and i've attached a patch. Unfortunately at least in raspbian jessie the package then goes on to fail with. make[1]: Leaving directory `/regina-normal-4.93/builds/debbuild' # Split into separate binary packages. dh_install --sourcedir=debian/tmp --list-missing dh_install: regina-normal missing files (usr/bin/reg*), aborting make: *** [install] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:/regina-normal-4.93#
diff -ur regina-normal-4.93/debian/changelog regina-normal-4.93.new/debian/changelog --- regina-normal-4.93/debian/changelog 2013-07-10 21:11:23.000000000 +0000 +++ regina-normal-4.93.new/debian/changelog 2013-07-10 20:05:02.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +regina-normal (4.93-1+rpi1) jessie-staging; urgency=low + + * Force python library location to new multiarch path. + * Bump python-dev build-depends to 2.7.5 for multiarch + (earlier versions may or may not be safe, I can't easilly tell) + + -- Peter Michael Green <plugw...@raspbian.org> Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:58:18 +0000 + regina-normal (4.93-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. diff -ur regina-normal-4.93/debian/control regina-normal-4.93.new/debian/control --- regina-normal-4.93/debian/control 2013-07-10 21:11:23.000000000 +0000 +++ regina-normal-4.93.new/debian/control 2013-07-10 20:04:29.000000000 +0000 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: extra Maintainer: Ben Burton <b...@debian.org> Homepage: http://regina.sourceforge.net/ -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), cmake, doxygen, libboost-python-dev (>= 1.39.0), libboost-regex-dev, libcppunit-dev (>= 1.10.2-4), libgmp-dev (>= 4.1.4-10), libqt4-dev, libpopt-dev, libsource-highlight-dev, libxml2-dev, mpi-default-dev, python-dev (>= 2.5.2-1~), python-support (>= 0.6), shared-mime-info, xsltproc, zlib1g-dev +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), cmake, doxygen, libboost-python-dev (>= 1.39.0), libboost-regex-dev, libcppunit-dev (>= 1.10.2-4), libgmp-dev (>= 4.1.4-10), libqt4-dev, libpopt-dev, libsource-highlight-dev, libxml2-dev, mpi-default-dev, python-dev (>= 2.7.5), python-support (>= 0.6), shared-mime-info, xsltproc, zlib1g-dev Standards-Version: 3.9.3 Package: regina-normal diff -ur regina-normal-4.93/debian/rules regina-normal-4.93.new/debian/rules --- regina-normal-4.93/debian/rules 2013-07-10 21:11:23.000000000 +0000 +++ regina-normal-4.93.new/debian/rules 2013-07-10 20:17:16.000000000 +0000 @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tmp = debian/tmp +DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH ?=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) + INSTALL_DIR = install -p -d -o root -g root -m 755 INSTALL_FILE = install -p -o root -g root -m 644 @@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ -DPACKAGE_NAME=regina-normal -DPACKAGING_MODE=1 \ $(DEB_CMAKE_CUSTOM_FLAGS) \ -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python${pyver} \ + -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libpython${pyver}.so -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -DDISABLE_RPATH=1 \ -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH="/usr/share/apps/cmake/modules"
