diff --git a/debian/patches/exported-versioninfo-from-upstream b/debian/patches/exported-versioninfo-from-upstream
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c91004aca6e52f3b8a1f62f54fbe2b1eaaedd25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/exported-versioninfo-from-upstream
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Description: flashrom version info	
+ There are a couple shell scripts, a Makefile, and a meson build file
+ that all need to know or try to find the version info. But the
+ versioninfo file seems to be the smartest choice for our needs.
+ .
+ flashrom (1.2.0-0pureos7) amber-updates; urgency=medium
+ .
+   * Found a cleaner way to remove git-hooks directory
+   * Bringing back in version information
+Author: Jeremiah C. Foster <jeremiah.foster@puri.sm>
+
+---
+The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please
+checkout http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ to learn about the format. Here
+are templates for supplementary fields that you might want to add:
+
+Origin: <vendor|upstream|other>, <url of original patch>
+Bug: <url in upstream bugtracker>
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/<bugnumber>
+Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/<bugnumber>
+Forwarded: <no|not-needed|url proving that it has been forwarded>
+Reviewed-By: <name and email of someone who approved the patch>
+Last-Update: 2020-06-12
+
+--- /dev/null
++++ flashrom-1.2.0/versioninfo.inc
+@@ -0,0 +1 @@
++VERSION = v1.2-3
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index d7eb770ef8875148ccaebd16692466c39ed4d3c7..78eb24df73fc320c92167697658323d24952fa1c 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 upstream-versioning-tools
+exported-versioninfo-from-upstream
diff --git a/versioninfo.inc b/versioninfo.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c74ea6ec17f4f702a714219a0e133721af84649
--- /dev/null
+++ b/versioninfo.inc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+VERSION = v1.2-3