diff --git a/helpers/make-ncurses b/helpers/make-ncurses
index 7f494e08..2a0fe91c 100644
--- a/helpers/make-ncurses
+++ b/helpers/make-ncurses
@@ -23,19 +23,18 @@
 # such packages from Debian in order to build the required udeb packages.
 ##
 
-VERSION=2
+VERSION=3
 NETINST=true
 BUILD_UNTIL=11.0
 . ./config
 
 #FIXME:T12
 # Set version number due to source origin change
-export FULLVERSION="$(sed 's|ubuntu0.1||' <<< $FULLVERSION)"
+FULLVERSION="$(sed -E 's/^(.*)ubuntu([^+]+)(\+.*)$/\1\3~ubuntu\2/' <<< $FULLVERSION)"
 
 # Apply Debian#1035621: ncurses: FTBFS: dh_autoreconf error on various architectures
 patch --no-backup-if-mismatch -p1 < $DATA/bbd46b3955647bf401325951d9f31db054e8d889.patch
 
 changelog "Rebuild as udeb dependency for debian-installer and patch dh_autoreconf."
-head -n1 debian/changelog | grep -q ubuntu && echo "error: update upstream version" && exit
 
 package