diff -urNad aft.orig/aft-5.098/compile.pl aft/aft-5.098/compile.pl
--- aft.orig/aft-5.098/compile.pl	2015-02-10 08:59:25.237512275 +0000
+++ aft/aft-5.098/compile.pl	2015-02-10 09:05:25.093653131 +0000
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 my $postfilter;
 my $prefilter;
 
-$date = scalar localtime;
+$date = $ENV{'BUILD_DATE'} || scalar localtime;
 
 (@ARGV == 0) && do {
     print (STDERR "Usage: aft-compile element_file.dat \n");
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@
 
 $interpolate = ($element{"interpolate"} =~ 'no') ? 0 : 1;
 print "\t\%pragma_postvar = (\n";
-foreach $item (keys %postvar) {
+foreach $item (sort keys %postvar) {
     print "\t\t'$item' =>\t '$postvar{$item}',\n";
 }
 print "\t);\n";
 
 print "\t\%elem = (\n";
-foreach $item  (keys %element) {
+foreach $item  (sort keys %element) {
   if ($element{$item} =~ /^\<Undefined/) {
     print (STDERR "Undefined element: [$item]\n");
   }
diff -urNad aft.orig/aft-5.098/debian/rules aft/aft-5.098/debian/rules
--- aft.orig/aft-5.098/debian/rules	2015-02-10 08:59:25.237512275 +0000
+++ aft/aft-5.098/debian/rules	2015-02-10 09:05:58.551154041 +0000
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
+BUILD_DATE := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Date)
+
 config.status: configure
 	dh_testdir
 	./configure --prefix=/usr
@@ -11,7 +13,7 @@
 
 build-stamp:  config.status
 	dh_testdir
-	$(MAKE)
+	$(MAKE) BUILD_DATE="$(BUILD_DATE)"
 	touch build-stamp
 
 clean: