Source: libvmime Version: 0.9.1-2 Tags: patch I think you need to apply something like the attached patch. However, you should probably read https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf yourself.
With the patch it built on arm64 for me. It wasn't in a fresh chroot, but you already build-depend on autotools-dev.
diff -ru libvmime-0.9.1.orig/debian/rules libvmime-0.9.1/debian/rules --- libvmime-0.9.1.orig/debian/rules 2015-05-18 19:45:40.000000000 +0000 +++ libvmime-0.9.1/debian/rules 2015-05-29 18:18:42.200000000 +0000 @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ endif # Add here commands to configure the package. + dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS) -Wl,-z,defs" ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info @@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ rm -f Makefile src/Makefile vmime/Makefile vmime/config.hpp build-stamp libtool config.guess config.log config.sub config.status config.h vmime.pc stamp-h1 cd src ; rm -f `find . -type l` + dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig dh_clean install: build