Fixes: #1037656

Fix some issues reported by lintian

Changes-By: lintian-brush
Fixes: lintian: cute-field
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/cute-field.html

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Fixes: lintian: debian-rules-uses-as-needed-linker-flag
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-uses-as-needed-linker-flag.html

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Fixes: lintian: useless-autoreconf-build-depends
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/useless-autoreconf-build-depends.html

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Fixes: lintian: upstream-metadata-file-is-missing
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/upstream-metadata-file-is-missing.html

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Fixes: lintian: uses-debhelper-compat-file
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uses-debhelper-compat-file.html

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Fixes: lintian: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version.html

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Fixes: lintian: homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri.html

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Fixes: lintian: older-debian-watch-file-standard
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/older-debian-watch-file-standard.html

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Fixes: lintian: debian-changelog-line-too-long
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-changelog-line-too-long.html

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Fixes: lintian: trailing-whitespace
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/trailing-whitespace.html

Travis-ci: added support for ppc64le

Adds gcov support, and travis/github changes.

version/0.12.8

version/0.12.8