I had a single test failure in torture.at ("Unusual Automake input files"), for the same reason resolved by Ralf Wildenhues in <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5187> - as in that case, the installed automake was v1.4. After installing automake v1.10 I got: 296 tests behaved as expected. 1 test was skipped.
It is probably common for both packages to be updated at roughly the same time, but as well as Ralf's patch it might be useful to warn the builder if the version of automake is such that tests would have failed. Hugo van der Sanden