diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6623e66..2266d54 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-texinfo (5.9.92.dfsg.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+texinfo (5.9.92.dfsg.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * Imported upstream testing releases
   * refresh/clean patches
   * remove cyrtexinfo format definition file, just give explanations
     in README.cyrtexinfo
-
- -- Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>  Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:47:11 +0900
+  * work around implicit aclocal-1.15 build requirement
+
+ -- Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>  Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:59:31 +0900
 
 texinfo (5.2.0.dfsg.1-6) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/do-not-require-automake-1.15 b/debian/patches/do-not-require-automake-1.15
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..68b6ff0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/do-not-require-automake-1.15
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+ configure |    4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+--- texinfo.orig/configure
++++ texinfo/configure
+@@ -4143,13 +4143,13 @@
+ 
+ # Some tools Automake needs.
+ 
+-ACLOCAL=${ACLOCAL-"${am_missing_run}aclocal-${am__api_version}"}
++ACLOCAL=${ACLOCAL-"${am_missing_run}aclocal"}
+ 
+ 
+ AUTOCONF=${AUTOCONF-"${am_missing_run}autoconf"}
+ 
+ 
+-AUTOMAKE=${AUTOMAKE-"${am_missing_run}automake-${am__api_version}"}
++AUTOMAKE=${AUTOMAKE-"${am_missing_run}automake"}
+ 
+ 
+ AUTOHEADER=${AUTOHEADER-"${am_missing_run}autoheader"}
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 47ba17d..7f65b38 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 #info_universal_argument
 dont_build_info
 info-manpage-mentiones-nonfree
+do-not-require-automake-1.15