Hello, The debian/rules of that source package generates the debian/patchlevel file for inclusion into debian/vdr-dev/usr/include/vdr/patchlevel, but does that *after* the creation of the vdr-dev binary-indep package... The following added dependency solves that : 106 # Build architecture-independent files here. 107 binary-indep: build install 108 dh_testdir -i ... "debian/rules" 158 lines (This tiny bug prevents recompiling Tobias source packages with Darren vdr-dev) -- NH