try it this way, instead

[debian/tar] / debian / rules

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8adc9887943d67aca801430f85ba31df790a0469..3fc3590a8989e0ffc1b00253b516ff442e3c0036 100755 (executable)
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ CFLAGS += -Wall
 LDFLAGS += `dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS`
 CPPFLAGS = `dpkg-buildflags --get CPPFLAGS`
 
+export BUILD_DATE = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n -e 's/^Date: //p')
+
 ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
   NUMJOBS = $(patsubst parallel=%,%,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
   MAKEFLAGS += -j$(NUMJOBS)
@@ -21,6 +23,7 @@ configure-stamp:
        dh_testdir
        cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub build-aux/config.sub
        cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess build-aux/config.guess
+       autoreconf --force -v --install
        RSH="/usr/bin/rsh" CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" ./configure \
                --prefix=/usr \
                --libexecdir=/usr/lib/tar \