diff --git a/psmisc.changes b/psmisc.changes
index d78360a..d12054d 100644
--- a/psmisc.changes
+++ b/psmisc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct 23 13:36:04 UTC 2023 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Fix version at configure time as there was no .tarball-version 
+
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 Thu Feb 16 16:06:59 UTC 2023 - Ludwig Nussel <lnussel@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/psmisc.spec b/psmisc.spec
index 4c788a3..5a532f3 100644
--- a/psmisc.spec
+++ b/psmisc.spec
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ grep -h src/ po/*.po|\
  tr ' ' '\n'|\
  sort -t : -k1,1 -u|\
  sed -r 's/:[0-9]+$//' > po/POTFILES.in
+echo %version > .tarball-version
 autoreconf -fi
 CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE ${RPM_OPT_FLAGS} -pipe -fPIE"
 CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"