diff --git a/rosegarden.changes b/rosegarden.changes
index fe6844a..b290e69 100644
--- a/rosegarden.changes
+++ b/rosegarden.changes
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Aug 26 15:31:47 UTC 2017 - davejplater@gmail.com
 
-- Work around a possible cmake-3.9.0 bug by building a dependency
-  prior to the main build.
+- Work around cmake-3.9.0 bug with upstream patch svnheader.patch
+- See https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/bugs/1552/ and
+  https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/17222.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr 21 16:32:14 UTC 2017 - davejplater@gmail.com
diff --git a/rosegarden.spec b/rosegarden.spec
index 3106c18..b1ef5e4 100644
--- a/rosegarden.spec
+++ b/rosegarden.spec
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ Source2:        %{name}.1
 Patch1:         rosegarden-10.10-filepaths.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE ledest@gmail.com fix bashisms in scripts
 Patch2:         rosegarden-14.02-fix-bashisms.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM see header - Fix cmake-3.9.0 build failure
+Patch3:         svnheader.patch
 BuildRequires:  alsa-devel
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 2.8.12
 BuildRequires:  dssi-devel
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ See the changelog for details.
 %setup -q
 %patch1
 %patch2
+%patch3 -p1
 # When we build svn we need to execute bootstrap.sh
 #sh bootstrap.sh
 
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
        -DUSE_QT5:BOOL=ON \
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALEDIR:PATH=%{_datadir}/locale/
 
-make svnheader
+#make svnheader
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
diff --git a/svnheader.patch b/svnheader.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c45bef2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/svnheader.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Description: fix svnversion.h dependency to permit parallel building
+ With CMake 3.9.1 and parallel building enabled, the incorrect specification
+ of the output filename when creating svnversion.h can lead to a race condition
+ such that the package fails to build.
+Author: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>
+Bug: https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/bugs/1552/
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/871213
+--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@
+ add_custom_target(svnheader ALL DEPENDS svn_header) # svn_header never gets created, it's just a unique string
+ 
+ # creates svnheader.h using cmake script
+-add_custom_command(OUTPUT svn_header ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/svnheader.h
++add_custom_command(OUTPUT svn_header ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/svnversion.h
+     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -DSOURCE_DIR=${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
+                          -P ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/buildkey.cmake)
+