diff --git a/debian.upstream/rules b/debian.upstream/rules
index 75787a9474..4a73db614a 100755
--- a/debian.upstream/rules
+++ b/debian.upstream/rules
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/utils.mk
 
-GST_API_VERSION = $(shell echo "$(DEB_SOURCE_PACKAGE)" | \
-	sed -n '/gstreamer\([0-9][0-9.]*\)-vaapi/s//\1/p')
-
 # Allow SMP build
 ifeq ($(DEBIAN_BUILD_NCPUS),)
 	DEBIAN_BUILD_NCPUS = $(shell /usr/bin/getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
@@ -19,8 +16,7 @@ MAKE += $(EXTRA_MAKE_FLAGS)
 
 # Allow HTML documentation build
 indep_conf_flags = \
-	--with-html-dir=\$${prefix}/share/doc/$(DEB_SOURCE_PACKAGE) \
-	--with-gstreamer-api=$(GST_API_VERSION)
+	--with-html-dir=\$${prefix}/share/doc/$(DEB_SOURCE_PACKAGE)
 
 # only build the docs if gtk-doc-tools is installed, i.e. binary-indep is
 # called