Failed to 'make dist' from git (on Fedora)

[Pavel Raiskup]

Hello, I've been playing with automatic rebuilds of GNU tar against Fedora/EPEL
a bit, and the recent commits in 'master' branch seem to break the build
process from git [2]:

    + make dist-xz
    make  distdir-am
    make[1]: Entering directory '/workdir/tar'
    if test -d .git; then                                              \
      cmd=./build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog;                 \
      if test -n "2009-03-06"; then                             \
        cmd="$cmd --since=\"2009-03-06\"";                     \
      fi;                                                              \
      if test -n "ChangeLog.amend"; then                       \
        cmd="$cmd --amend=ChangeLog.amend";                   \
      fi;                                                              \
      $cmd --format='%s%n%n%b%n' |                                    \
                sed '/<unknown>$/d' | fmt -s > ./cl-t;         \
              if test -n "ChangeLog.CVS" && test -f "ChangeLog.CVS"; \
      then                                                             \
        echo "" >> ./cl-t;                              \
        cat "ChangeLog.CVS" |                                     \
          sed '/^Local Variables:/,/^End:/d' >> ./cl-t; \
      fi;                                                              \
      echo "Local Variables:" >> ./cl-t;                \
      echo "mode: change-log" >> ./cl-t;                \
      echo "version-control: never"  >> ./cl-t;         \
      echo "buffer-read-only: t" >> ./cl-t;             \
      echo "End:" >> ./cl-t;                            \
      rm -f ./ChangeLog;                                \
      mv ./cl-t ./ChangeLog;             \
    fi
    Can't locate object method "new" via package "Safe" (perhaps you forgot to 
load "Safe"?) at ./build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog line 326, <PIPE> line 545.
    NEWS not updated; not releasing
    make[1]: *** [Makefile:1660: distdir-am] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/workdir/tar'
    make: *** [Makefile:1657: distdir] Error 2

[1] https://github.com/praiskup/tar/commits/ci
[2] 
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/praiskup/tar-upstream-head/srpm-builds/03032192/builder-live.log.gz

Pavel