diff --git a/perl-5.28-fixes.patch b/perl-5.28-fixes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe96262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl-5.28-fixes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+>From 1f27900352e04ff4f19bec1c1e9635adad2be31c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
+Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:40:00 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix unescaped left braces in regexps, deprecated since Perl
+ 5.27.8
+
+This fixes test failures on recent Perl versions.
+---
+ tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm b/tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm
+index dc32ca2..c577aa9 100644
+--- a/tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm
++++ b/tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm
+@@ -5478,11 +5478,11 @@ sub _parse_special_misc_command($$$$)
+     }
+   } elsif ($command eq 'clickstyle') {
+     # REMACRO
+-    if ($line =~ /^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({})?\s*/) {
++    if ($line =~ /^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)(\{\})?\s*/) {
+       $args = ['@'.$1];
+       $self->{'clickstyle'} = $1;
+       $remaining = $line;
+-      $remaining =~ s/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({})?\s*(\@(c|comment)((\@|\s+).*)?)?//;
++      $remaining =~ s/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)(\{\})?\s*(\@(c|comment)((\@|\s+).*)?)?//;
+       $has_comment = 1 if (defined($4));
+     } else {
+       $self->line_error (sprintf($self->__(
+-- 
+2.17.0
+
diff --git a/texinfo.changes b/texinfo.changes
index 87bc962..5f94020 100644
--- a/texinfo.changes
+++ b/texinfo.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov 22 17:59:13 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Use noun phrase for summaries.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 30 13:15:15 UTC 2018 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Add patch perl-5.28-fixes.patch to get build cehck working again
+  due broken perl API with perl 5.28 and up (boo#1113945)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr  6 09:02:47 UTC 2018 - adam.majer@suse.de
 
diff --git a/texinfo.spec b/texinfo.spec
index 348dc1c..f5da34c 100644
--- a/texinfo.spec
+++ b/texinfo.spec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
 # published by the Open Source Initiative.
 
-# Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
+# Please submit bugfixes or comments via https://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
 
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 Name:           texinfo
 Version:        6.5
 Release:        0
-Summary:        Tools Needed to Create Documentation from Texinfo Sources
-License:        GPL-3.0+
+Summary:        Tools for creating documentation from texinfo sources
+License:        GPL-3.0-or-later
 Group:          Productivity/Publishing/Texinfo
 Url:            https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
 Source0:        https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Source2:        %{name}.keyring
 Source10:       info-dir
 Patch1:         texinfo-zlib.patch
 Patch2:         install-info_exitcode.patch
+Patch3:         perl-5.28-fixes.patch
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  help2man
 BuildRequires:  libbz2-devel
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ on-line manuals in the Info format, so you need a program called "Info
 reader" to read the manuals.
 
 %package     -n makeinfo
-Summary:        Translate Texinfo documents to info format
+Summary:        Translator for converting texinfo documents to info format
 # /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/NodeNameNormalization.pm uses Text::Unidecode
 Group:          Productivity/Publishing/Texinfo
 Requires:       perl(Text::Unidecode)
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Suggests:       texinfo
 Provides:       texinfo:%{_bindir}/makeinfo
 
 %description -n makeinfo
-Makeinfo translates  Texinfo source documentation to various other
+Makeinfo translates Texinfo source documentation to various other
 formats, by default Info files suitable for reading online with Emacs
 or standalone GNU Info.
 
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ or standalone GNU Info.
 %setup -q
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
+%patch3 -p1
 
 %build
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8