diff --git a/lvalert/debian/changelog b/lvalert/debian/changelog
index 0da5e8116b6ecf94c5719837708f177614d9c6c5..177cabec33980a8e1045fa11498ad7bc945fca75 100644
--- a/lvalert/debian/changelog
+++ b/lvalert/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+ligo-lvalert (1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed version number problems.  Added GIT_TAG info to lib.
+
+ -- Brian Moe <brian.moe@ligo.org>  Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:33:20 -0600
+
 ligo-lvalert (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Initial release
diff --git a/lvalert/debian/control b/lvalert/debian/control
index 87ef9545be8118b3f89a9487cd9eb1b380bbc79a..e084e135f0766ee4d5655c7469d74e7c2e2df494 100644
--- a/lvalert/debian/control
+++ b/lvalert/debian/control
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 Source: ligo-lvalert
-Section: python
-Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Brian Moe <brian.moe@ligo.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), python-support, python (>=2.4)
+Section: python
+Priority: optional
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), python-support (>= 0.8.4)
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
-Homepage: http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/projects/lvalert.html
+XS-Python-Version: current
 
 Package: python-ligo-lvalert
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, python-pyxmpp, python-libxml2, python-m2crypto, python-dnspython
+XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
+Provides: ${python:Provides}
 Description: LIGO-Virgo Alert Network
-  The LIGO-Virgo Alert Network (LVAlert) is a prototype notification service built XMPP
-  to provide a basic notification tool which allows multiple producers and consumers
-  of notifications.
-
+ The LIGO-Virgo Alert Network (LVAlert) is a prototype notification service built XMPP to provide a basic notification tool which allows multiple producers and consumers of notifications.
diff --git a/lvalert/debian/pyversions b/lvalert/debian/pyversions
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b253bc3cacf184ab14499ae295642a1f1763632..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lvalert/debian/pyversions
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2.4-
diff --git a/lvalert/debian/rules b/lvalert/debian/rules
index 917d9bf25deb90bc3cd843717dc94359fcc02eb6..6a1d4775b16b13036c5c00041387fba0013646a1 100755
--- a/lvalert/debian/rules
+++ b/lvalert/debian/rules
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
-# -*- makefile -*-
-# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
-# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
-# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
-# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
-# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-make.
 
-# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+# This file was automatically generated by stdeb 0.5.1 at
+# Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:33:20 -0600
+
+# Unset the environment variables set by dpkg-buildpackage. (This is
+# necessary because distutils is brittle with compiler/linker flags
+# set. Specifically, packages using f2py will break without this.)
+unexport CPPFLAGS
+unexport CFLAGS
+unexport CXXFLAGS
+unexport FFLAGS
+unexport LDFLAGS
+
+#exports specified using stdeb Setup-Env-Vars:
+export DH_OPTIONS=--buildsystem=python_distutils
+
 
 %:
-	dh  $@
+	dh $@
+
+
diff --git a/lvalert/ligo/lvalert/__init__.py b/lvalert/ligo/lvalert/__init__.py
index 47a848ad878c584b3f98d991c4adfc94b3e67445..5e8f07b5f1b9d37e5a8e719deb2b1f4857994d1c 100644
--- a/lvalert/ligo/lvalert/__init__.py
+++ b/lvalert/ligo/lvalert/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2009  LIGO Scientific Collaboration
+# Copyright (C) 2011  LIGO Scientific Collaboration
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
@@ -14,18 +14,8 @@
 # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
 
-#
-# =============================================================================
-#
-#                                   Preamble
-#
-# =============================================================================
-#
-
-"""
-FIXME:  ask somebody to document this.
-"""
-
 __author__ = "LIGO Scientific Collaboration"
 
 __all__ = ["pubsub", "lvstanzaprocessor", "utils"]
+
+GIT_TAG = 'lvalert-1.0-3'
diff --git a/lvalert/setup.cfg b/lvalert/setup.cfg
index 1d517ef4c816d401c0e8526342ae8cb23232c749..8a3905ec8417bfba1d0ad20d68c1ac4c25115df8 100644
--- a/lvalert/setup.cfg
+++ b/lvalert/setup.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 [bdist_rpm]
 requires = ligo-common pyxmpp libxml2-python m2crypto python-dns
-release = 1.0
+release = 3