Tvheadend

I´m currently trying to install the tvheadend package from perexg on my ubuntu 12.04 LTS system.
The compiled version works as expected, but when doing

./Autobuild.sh -t precise-i386

in the tvheadend folder located in my home directory, I get this error:

dpkg-deb: error: parsing file 'debian/tvheadend/DEBIAN/control' near line 16 package 'tvheadend':
empty value for version
dh_builddeb: dpkg-deb --build debian/tvheadend .. returned exit code 2
dpkg-deb --build debian/tvheadend-dbg ..
dpkg-deb: error: parsing file 'debian/tvheadend-dbg/DEBIAN/control' near line 12 package 'tvheadend-dbg':
empty value for version
dh_builddeb: dpkg-deb --build debian/tvheadend-dbg .. returned exit code 2
make: *** [binary] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2

I have looked all over to find a solution, but the result to my search was bug #1493 (https://tvheadend.org/issues/1493) on this site, where B. J. ran into the same problem but didn´t write how to fix it.