-# pretty-print the date
-DATE := $(shell LC_ALL=C date --date="`dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^Date: ' | sed 's/^Date: *//'`" '+%d %B, %Y')
-
-# source depends -- check if these packages are installed
-SRC_DEPENDS := debiandoc-sgml lout psutils
-
-.PHONY: source-depends
-source-depends:
- @set -e ;\
- for dep in $(SRC_DEPENDS); do \
- echo "checking if package \`$$dep' is installed..." ;\
- dpkg --get-selections | grep "$$dep\W\+install" || \
- exit 1 ;\
- done
- @echo "all source-depends seem to be installed, good"
+DEB_DATE := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Date: *//p')
+# pretty-print the date; I wish this was dynamic like the top-level makefile but oh well
+DATE_EN := $(shell LC_ALL=C date --date="$(DEB_DATE)" '+%d %B, %Y')
+DATE_FR := $(shell LC_ALL=fr_FR date --date="$(DEB_DATE)" '+%d %B %Y')
+DATE_JA := $(shell LC_ALL=ja_JP date --date="$(DEB_DATE)" '+%x')
+
+version.ent: debian/changelog
+ :> version.ent
+ echo "<!entity version \"$(DEB_VERSION)\">" >> version.ent
+ echo "<!entity date-en \"$(DATE_EN)\">" >> version.ent
+ echo "<!entity date-fr \"$(DATE_FR)\">" >> version.ent
+ echo "<!entity date-ja \"$(DATE_JA)\">" >> version.ent