diff -urNad sgabios.orig/sgabios-0.0~svn8/debian/rules sgabios/sgabios-0.0~svn8/debian/rules
--- sgabios.orig/sgabios-0.0~svn8/debian/rules	2015-02-24 17:02:48.789379462 +0000
+++ sgabios/sgabios-0.0~svn8/debian/rules	2015-02-24 18:14:54.836871967 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
+BUILD_HOST = debian
+BUILD_USER = debian
+BUILD_DATE = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field=Date)
+BUILD_SHORT_DATE = $(shell date --date="$(BUILD_DATE)" +%D)
+
 %:
 	+dh $@
 
@@ -7,6 +12,13 @@
 	make clean
 	rm -f .depend
 
+override_dh_auto_build:
+	make \
+		BUILD_HOST="\\\"$(BUILD_HOST)\\\"" \
+		BUILD_USER="\\\"$(BUILD_USER)\\\"" \
+		BUILD_DATE="\\\"$(BUILD_DATE)\\\"" \
+		BUILD_SHORT_DATE="\\\"$(BUILD_SHORT_DATE)\\\""
+
 override_dh_auto_configure override_dh_auto_test:
 # nothing to do