diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d38c3762..4fd44e00 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ skimage (0.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
     - changeset_0eea2a48fe2dca7bbb3681fcd5b511579cad6347.diff -- resolves
       incompatibility with cython 0.19 (thanks Julian Taylor for the
       pointer)
+    - up_correct_version -- fix upstream version to be 0.8.2 (thanks
+      Julian again)
 
  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:28:31 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 3f76ce7a..eefc860f 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 changeset_0eea2a48fe2dca7bbb3681fcd5b511579cad6347.diff
+up_correct_version
diff --git a/debian/patches/up_correct_version b/debian/patches/up_correct_version
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffbd972d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/up_correct_version
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ MAINTAINER_EMAIL    = 'stefan@sun.ac.za'
+ URL                 = 'http://scikit-image.org'
+ LICENSE             = 'Modified BSD'
+ DOWNLOAD_URL        = 'http://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image'
+-VERSION             = '0.8.1'
++VERSION             = '0.8.2'
+ PYTHON_VERSION      = (2, 5)
+ DEPENDENCIES        = {
+                         'numpy': (1, 6),