diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 570fdb9..497c6f3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ $(BUILDDIR): keycodemapdb | submodule
 	rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/ui/keycodemapdb
 	cp -a keycodemapdb $(BUILDDIR)/ui/
 	echo "git clone git://git.proxmox.com/git/pve-qemu.git\\ngit checkout $(GITVERSION)" > $(BUILDDIR)/debian/SOURCE
-	# set package version
-	sed -i 's/^pkgversion="".*/pkgversion="${PACKAGE}_${KVMVER}-${KVMPKGREL}"/' $(BUILDDIR)/configure
 
 .PHONY: deb kvm
 deb kvm: $(DEBS)
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 30868b0..4f6987e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
+include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk
 
 # These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
 # from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ config.status: configure
 	--sysconfdir=/etc \
 	--target-list=$(ARCH)-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu \
 	--with-confsuffix="/kvm" \
+	--with-pkgversion="${DEB_SOURCE}_${DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM}" \
 	--audio-drv-list="alsa" \
 	--datadir=/usr/share \
 	--disable-capstone \