diff --git a/init/Makefile b/init/Makefile
index 85f5cabb723b3..479b1253fcbe2 100644
--- a/init/Makefile
+++ b/init/Makefile
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ CFLAGS_version.o := -include $(obj)/utsversion-tmp.h
 # Build version-timestamp.c with final UTS_VERSION
 #
 
-include/generated/utsversion.h: build-version-auto = $(shell $(srctree)/$(src)/scripts/build-version)
+include/generated/utsversion.h: build-version-auto = $(shell $(srctree)/$(src)/build-version)
 include/generated/utsversion.h: build-timestamp-auto = $(shell LC_ALL=C date)
 include/generated/utsversion.h: FORCE
 	$(call filechk,uts_version)
diff --git a/scripts/build-version b/init/build-version
similarity index 100%
rename from scripts/build-version
rename to init/build-version
diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
index 10235b8110757..d8b0abef338d9 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
+++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ version=$KERNELRELEASE
 if [ "${KDEB_PKGVERSION:+set}" ]; then
 	packageversion=$KDEB_PKGVERSION
 else
-	packageversion=$($srctree/scripts/build-version)
+	packageversion=$($srctree/init/build-version)
 fi
 sourcename=${KDEB_SOURCENAME:-linux-upstream}
 
diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
index 5a1ecc2ea1fb7..d41608efb7474 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkspec
+++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ fi
 cat<<EOF
 %define ARCH ${ARCH}
 %define KERNELRELEASE ${KERNELRELEASE}
-%define pkg_release $("${srctree}/scripts/build-version")
+%define pkg_release $("${srctree}/init/build-version")
 EOF
 
 cat "${srctree}/scripts/package/kernel.spec"