Bug#906352: ekg2: FTBFS in buster/sid (Can't exec "automake-1.15")

[Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:19:32 +0000 Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> wrote:
> Dear maintainer:
> 
> I tried to build this package in buster but it failed:
> 
> [...]
> autoreconf: failed to run automake-1.15: No such file or directory

That's because of https://sources.debian.org/src/ekg2/1:0.4%7Epre+20120506.1-14/debian/rules/#L7
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# As recommended by "current Debian best practice" prescribed by autotools-dev,
# we specify an explicit automake version
export AUTOMAKE=automake-1.15
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autoreconf will try to use the older automake even though it isn't a build-dependency.
This has happened before: https://bugs.debian.org/797230 https://bugs.debian.org/722607

Note: I think the comment is referring to 
https://sources.debian.org/src/autotools-dev/20180224.1/debian/autotools-dev.README.Debian/#L168


Cheers,
Juhani