> (I need to drop ones that the previous maintainer added but the package > is non-functional on.)
Do you have any information on what failed on which architectures? If a C/C++ program works on i386 and amd64, and builds but doesn't work on ARM architectures, then it probably assumes somewhere that plain char is signed. It might be easy enough to fix. GCC's -fsigned-char/-funsigned-char options can help with investigations.
