Sigh. the debdiff said "unstable", but clearly it should have said "testing-proposed-updates" instead. attached is the correct debdiff.
--dkg
diff -Nru xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/changelog
xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/changelog
--- xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/changelog 2013-02-07 22:04:02.000000000
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+++ xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/changelog 2013-03-27 15:20:49.000000000
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+xdotool (1:2.20100701.2961-3+deb7u3) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low
+
+ * run test suite with SHELL=/bin/bash to help out the buildds.
+
+ -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:04:36
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+
xdotool (1:2.20100701.2961-3+deb7u2) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low
* revert previous build attempt (thanks Michael Stapelberg for your work!)
diff -Nru xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/rules
xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/rules
--- xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/rules 2013-02-07 21:38:05.000000000
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+++ xdotool-2.20100701.2961/debian/rules 2013-03-27 15:01:37.000000000
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@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@
override_dh_compress:
dh_compress -X.js
+
+override_dh_auto_test:
+ SHELL=/bin/bash dh_auto_test
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