I'm attaching a debdiff so that `patch' tag works.
/mjt
diff -Nru iproute2-3.9.0/debian/changelog iproute2-3.9.0/debian/changelog --- iproute2-3.9.0/debian/changelog 2013-05-08 16:27:40.000000000 +0400 +++ iproute2-3.9.0/debian/changelog 2013-06-07 21:54:32.000000000 +0400 @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +iproute2 (3.9.0-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add debian/patches/suseconds-to-long.diff to fix FTBFS on sparc + (Closes: #711540) + * Urgency is set to medium because due to the above bug, the package + is holding a long and complicated list of other packages which + grows and becomes more complicated. + + -- Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:42:09 +0400 + iproute2 (3.9.0-2) unstable; urgency=low * Give up and just use an epoch for the transitional packages diff -Nru iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/series iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/series --- iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/series 2013-04-10 23:08:18.000000000 +0400 +++ iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/series 2013-06-07 21:39:14.000000000 +0400 @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ moo.diff txtdocs.diff +suseconds-to-long.diff diff -Nru iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/suseconds-to-long.diff iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/suseconds-to-long.diff --- iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/suseconds-to-long.diff 1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300 +++ iproute2-3.9.0/debian/patches/suseconds-to-long.diff 2013-06-07 21:41:56.000000000 +0400 @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +From: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> +Subject: util: cast suseconds_t to unsigned long + +This fixes an FTBFS on sparc: + + utils.c:802:2: error: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', + but argument 4 has type '__suseconds_t' [-Werror=format] + +--- a/lib/utils.c ++++ b/lib/utils.c +@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ int print_timestamp(FILE *fp) + + tstr = asctime(localtime(&tv.tv_sec)); + tstr[strlen(tstr)-1] = 0; +- fprintf(fp, "Timestamp: %s %lu usec\n", tstr, tv.tv_usec); ++ fprintf(fp, "Timestamp: %s %lu usec\n", tstr, (unsigned long)tv.tv_usec); + return 0; + } +
