The attached simple patch fixes this problem, and I've just NMUed the package with this fix in, as you are on the LowThresholdNMU list (thank you!)
Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/
diff -Nru notify-python-0.1.1/debian/changelog notify-python-0.1.1/debian/changelog --- notify-python-0.1.1/debian/changelog 2014-10-20 19:24:55.000000000 +0000 +++ notify-python-0.1.1/debian/changelog 2014-10-20 19:24:55.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +notify-python (0.1.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Use dh-autoreconf to keep uptodate for new architectures (Closes: 765237) + + -- Wookey <wookey@localhost> Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:04:53 +0000 + notify-python (0.1.1-3) unstable; urgency=low * Team upload diff -Nru notify-python-0.1.1/debian/control notify-python-0.1.1/debian/control --- notify-python-0.1.1/debian/control 2014-10-20 19:24:55.000000000 +0000 +++ notify-python-0.1.1/debian/control 2014-10-20 19:24:55.000000000 +0000 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Maintainer: Gustavo Franco <stra...@debian.org> Uploaders: Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), + dh-autoreconf, cdbs (>= 0.4.90~), python-all-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~), pkg-config (>= 0.20-1), diff -Nru notify-python-0.1.1/debian/rules notify-python-0.1.1/debian/rules --- notify-python-0.1.1/debian/rules 2014-10-20 19:24:55.000000000 +0000 +++ notify-python-0.1.1/debian/rules 2014-10-20 19:24:55.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ #!/usr/bin/make -f include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk +include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/autoreconf.mk CFLAGS += -Wall -g -O$(if $(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)),0,2)