diff --git a/ndn-tools/debian/patches/wscript.patch b/ndn-tools/debian/patches/wscript.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fe6fab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ndn-tools/debian/patches/wscript.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Index: a/wscript
+===================================================================
+--- a.orig/wscript	2017-01-26 05:03:14.250879786 +0000
++++ a/wscript	2017-01-26 05:03:52.114878924 +0000
+@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
+     bld.recurse('manpages')
+ 
+ def version(bld):
++    didGetVersion = False
+     # Modified from ndn-cxx wscript
+     try:
+         cmd = ['git', 'describe', '--always', '--match', '%s*' % GIT_TAG_PREFIX]