--- /dev/null
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-AC_INIT([mklibs],m4_esyscmd(dpkg-parsechangelog | perl -ne 'print $1 if m/^Version: (.*)$/;'))
++AC_INIT([mklibs],m4_esyscmd([head -n1 debian/changelog | awk -F'[\\\\(\\\\)]' '{ print $2 }' | xargs -I{} echo -n {}]))
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign no-define])
+ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
+ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE