getconf(1) interface considered cross-harmful

Hi! I recently noticed that the getconf(1) interface is broken by design when it comes to cross-compiling. It always returns the information for the build system (GNU/dpkg terms), via the build system libc. This means that any package using getconf(1) to get build-specific information such as

Accepted debdelta 0.60 (source all amd64) into unstable

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Accepted dynare 4.5.2-1 (source) into unstable

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Accepted fonts-sipa-arundina 0.2.2-1 (source all) into unstable

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Accepted debian-edu 1.929 (source) into unstable

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Re: Concerns about infrastructure for Alioth replacement

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Please don't get me wrong, but even if gitlab packages are recent tomorrow > (which I > don't think) we won't migrate. The work is done and we have all the things in > place to maintain them. So please do me a favour and don't mention

Accepted r-cran-brew 1.0-6-2 (source) into unstable

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Accepted gnupg2 2.2.1-4 (source) into unstable

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