Control: tag -1 + patch There is a mistake in the automake version detection, and so it tries to call the tests differently, like with automake <= 1.11.
The attached patch fixes the version check.
diff --git a/debian/patches/automake-1.12 b/debian/patches/automake-1.12 index bea90c6..cd8be3e 100644 --- a/debian/patches/automake-1.12 +++ b/debian/patches/automake-1.12 @@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ +# This is cruel, but the transition to parallel tests with +# different semantics of variables is really not nice -+AM_CONDITIONAL(VER_AM_GE_12, test `head -n 1 Makefile.in | cut -f3 -d.` -ge 12) ++AM_CONDITIONAL(VER_AM_GE_12, test `head -n 1 Makefile.in | cut -f3 -d. | cut -f1 -d' '` -ge 12) + AC_OUTPUT
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