diff --git a/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh b/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh
index d10dd03528..b93cda0bf2 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh
+++ b/packaging/linux/buildpackage.sh
@@ -41,15 +41,14 @@ cp -r hicolor root/usr/share/icons/
     fi
 ) &
 
-# (
-#         echo "Building Arch-Linux package."
-#         pushd pkgbuild/ &> /dev/null
-#         sh buildpackage.sh "$VERSION" "$PACKAGEDIR" &> package.log
-#         if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-#             echo "Arch-Linux package build failed, refer to $PWD/package.log."
-#         fi
-#         popd &> /dev/null
-#     ) &
+(
+    echo "Building Arch-Linux package."
+    cd pkgbuild
+    sh buildpackage.sh "$VERSION" "$PACKAGEDIR" &> package.log
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Arch-Linux package build failed, refer to $PWD/package.log."
+    fi
+) &
 #     
 #     (
 #         echo "Building RPM package."
diff --git a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
index 02e42bf559..59c052cc0b 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
+++ b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: openra
 Version: {VERSION}
 Architecture: all
 Maintainer: Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz>
-Uploaders: Maikel van den Hout <ma1kelvdh@gmail.com>
+Uploaders: Maikel van den Hout <ma1kelvdh@gmail.com>, Paul Chote <sleipnir@sleipnirstuff.com>
 Installed-Size: {SIZE}	
 Depends: nvidia-cg-toolkit (>= 2.1), libopenal1, mono-runtime, libmono-winforms2.0-cil, libfreetype6, libsdl1.2debian, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dri, zenity, wget, unzip
 Section: games
diff --git a/packaging/linux/deb/buildpackage.sh b/packaging/linux/deb/buildpackage.sh
index 450d710382..f31816b4e6 100755
--- a/packaging/linux/deb/buildpackage.sh
+++ b/packaging/linux/deb/buildpackage.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# OpenRA packaging script for Mac OSX
+# OpenRA packaging script for Debian based distributions
 E_BADARGS=85
 if [ $# -ne "3" ]
 then
diff --git a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
index 8f6369d7a8..e13cdd53c0 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
+++ b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Contributor: Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz>
-pkgname=openra-git
-pkgver=20100806.2
+pkgname=openra
+pkgver={VERSION}
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Open Source rebuild of the Red Alert game engine using Mono/OpenGL."
 arch=(any)
diff --git a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh
index e6f905f156..e9dcc86ceb 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh
+++ b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/buildpackage.sh
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ then
 fi
 
 PKGVERSION=`echo $1 | sed "s/-/\\./g"`
-sed -i "s/pkgver=[0-9\\.]\+/pkgver=$PKGVERSION/" PKGBUILD
+sed -i "s/{VERSION}/$PKGVERSION/" PKGBUILD
 
 makepkg --holdver
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-mv openra-git-$PKGVERSION-1-any.pkg.tar.xz $2
\ No newline at end of file
+mv openra-$PKGVERSION-1-any.pkg.tar.xz $2
\ No newline at end of file