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debian/rules: work around lrelease failure when building under user-mode emulation.

Mihai Moldovan requested to merge workaround/arm-user-mode-emulation-lrelease into master

In user-mode emulation, lrelease wrongly detects a cross-compiling situation and fails to load the default mkspec for some reason. Debugging this is incredibly frustrating, especially since strace and gdb do not work correctly in user-mode emulation.

Fortunately, we can work around this issue by specifying QMAKESPEC directly, ironically with values queried from qmake.

We will do that for Debian 12+ only for now. Note that this is not an issue with full-machine emulation, since the inner system is unsuspecting to the actual bare-metal host.

N.B.: I need this ASAP, so will merge this as soon as the test build succeeds.

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