diff -u nux-2.8.0/debian/rules nux-2.8.0/debian/rules
--- nux-2.8.0/debian/rules
+++ nux-2.8.0/debian/rules
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
+DEB_HOST_ARCH := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)
+gles2_architectures := armel armhf
 
 %:
 	dh $@ --with quilt
@@ -10,7 +12,11 @@
 # build documentation as I didn't find a proper way to avoid make clean to not
 # remove doc/
 override_dh_auto_configure:
+ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_ARCH), $(gles2_architectures)))
+	dh_auto_configure -- --enable-documentation=no --disable-tests --enable-opengles-20
+else
 	dh_auto_configure -- --enable-documentation=no --disable-tests
+endif
 NUX_ABIVERSION := $(shell sed -rn 's/^\#define[[:space:]]+NUX_ABIVERSION[[:space:]]+//p' Nux/ABI.h )
 
 override_dh_install:
diff -u nux-2.8.0/debian/control nux-2.8.0/debian/control
--- nux-2.8.0/debian/control
+++ nux-2.8.0/debian/control
@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@
                libboost1.46-dev,
                libcairo2-dev (>= 1.9.14),
                libpng12-dev (>= 1.2.44),
-               libglew1.6-dev,               
-               libglewmx1.6-dev,
+               libglew1.6-dev [!armel !armhf],
+               libglewmx1.6-dev [!armel !armhf],
                libxxf86vm-dev,
-               libgl1-mesa-dev (>= 7.9~git20100924-0ubuntu3),
-               libglu1-mesa-dev,
+               libgl1-mesa-dev (>= 7.9~git20100924-0ubuntu3) [!armel !armhf],
+               libglu1-mesa-dev [!armel !armhf],
+               libegl1-mesa-dev [armel armhf],
+               libgles2-mesa-dev [armel armhf],
                libxdamage-dev,
                libxcomposite-dev,
                libsigc++-2.0-dev,
@@ -64,11 +66,13 @@
          libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev,
          libcairo2-dev (>= 1.9.14),
          libpng12-dev (>= 1.2.44),
-         libglew1.6-dev,
-         libglewmx1.6-dev,
+         libglew1.6-dev [!armel !armhf],
+         libglewmx1.6-dev [!armel !armhf],
          libboost1.46-dev,
          libxxf86vm-dev,
-         libgl1-mesa-dev,
+         libgl1-mesa-dev [!armel !armhf],
+         libegl1-mesa-dev [armel armhf],
+         libgles2-mesa-dev [armel armhf],
          libsigc++-2.0-dev,
          libpango1.0-dev,
          libpcre3-dev,
diff -u nux-2.8.0/debian/changelog nux-2.8.0/debian/changelog
--- nux-2.8.0/debian/changelog
+++ nux-2.8.0/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+nux (2.8.0-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low
+
+  * Enabling build with OpenGL ES2.0 support for ARM (LP: #979438)
+
+ -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@linaro.org>  Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:03:56 -0300
+
 nux (2.8.0-0ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.