diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 54672cbcd719..198f675c419e 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -2452,6 +2452,10 @@ S: 482 Shadowgraph Dr.
 S: San Jose, CA  95110
 S: USA
 
+N: Michal Marek
+E: michal.lkml@markovi.net
+D: Kbuild Maintainer 2009-2017
+
 N: Martin Mares
 E: mj@ucw.cz
 W: http://www.ucw.cz/~mj/
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 00ff4a2949b8..2585e7edc335 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -11035,6 +11035,7 @@ KCONFIG
 M:	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
 L:	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
+Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/list/
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git kconfig
 F:	Documentation/kbuild/kconfig*
 F:	scripts/Kconfig.include
@@ -11092,10 +11093,12 @@ F:	fs/autofs/
 
 KERNEL BUILD + files below scripts/ (unless maintained elsewhere)
 M:	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
-M:	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
+R:	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
 R:	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
+R:	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
 L:	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
+Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/list/
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git
 F:	Documentation/kbuild/
 F:	Makefile
diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
index 60a2a63a5e90..a3ac5a716e9f 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
+++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ if [ -n "$KDEB_PKGVERSION" ]; then
 	packageversion=$KDEB_PKGVERSION
 	revision=${packageversion##*-}
 else
-	revision=$(cat .version 2>/dev/null||echo 1)
+	revision=$($srctree/init/build-version)
 	packageversion=$version-$revision
 fi
 sourcename=$KDEB_SOURCENAME