--- a/debian/patches/20_use_debian_version_in_manpage_over_current_date.patch	1970-01-01 02:00:00.000000000 +0200
--- b/debian/patches/20_use_debian_version_in_manpage_over_current_date.patch	2015-12-06 11:33:20.278261513 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- monit-5.15.orig/configure.ac
++++ monit-5.15/configure.ac
+@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ if test "x$POD2MAN" = "xno"; then
+ 		AC_MSG_ERROR([pod2man is required to build the monit.1 man file.])
+ 	fi
+ else
+-	d=`date  '+%B %d. %Y'`
++	d=debian/`dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Version`
+ 	POD2MANFLAGS="--center 'User Commands' --release '${d}' --date='www.mmonit.com' --lax"
+ 	AC_SUBST([POD2MANFLAGS])
+ fi
--- a/debian/patches/series	2015-12-06 11:25:08.379215842 +0200
--- b/debian/patches/series	2015-12-06 11:33:15.358160074 +0200
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
  05_monitrc.patch
  11_enable_hurd.patch
 12_FTBFS_on_kfreebsd.patch
+20_use_debian_version_in_manpage_over_current_date.patch