diff -Nuar speech-dispatcher-0.8.3/git-version-gen speech-dispatcher-0.8.3-fix/git-version-gen
--- speech-dispatcher-0.8.3/git-version-gen	2015-06-11 23:47:49.000000000 +0000
+++ speech-dispatcher-0.8.3-fix/git-version-gen	2016-02-03 03:52:15.815758100 +0000
@@ -86,7 +86,10 @@
     v=`cat $tarball_version_file` || exit 1
     case $v in
 	*$nl*) v= ;; # reject multi-line output
-	[0-9]*) ;;
+	[0-9]*)
+		echo "$v" | tr -d '\012'
+		exit 0
+		;;
 	*) v= ;;
     esac
     test -z "$v" \