diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 12874b55..5888859e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
 
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode. 
 export DH_VERBOSE=1
-MAJOR=$(shell sed -ne 's/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*/\1/;1p' debian/changelog)
-REV=$(shell env LANG=C svn info --non-interactive | awk '/^Revision:/ { print $$2 }')
-VERSION="${MAJOR}~svn${REV}"
-export VERSION
 
 override_dh_install:
 #dh install