diff --git a/debian/orig-tar.sh b/debian/orig-tar.sh
index db09674c..e72ed3c1 100755
--- a/debian/orig-tar.sh
+++ b/debian/orig-tar.sh
@@ -135,14 +135,16 @@ if test -z  "$TAG" -a -z "$FINAL_RELEASE"; then
         VERSION=$MAJOR_VERSION
         MAJOR_VERSION=snapshot
     fi
-    # When upstream released X, they will update X to have X.0.1
-    # In general, in Debian, we will keep X until X.0.1 is released (or rc in experimental)
-    # However, on apt.llvm.org, we will update the version to have X.0.1
-    # This code is doing that.
-    MAJOR=$(grep "set(LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR" llvm/CMakeLists.txt|sed -e "s|.*LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR \(.*\))|\1|")
-    MINOR=$(grep "set(LLVM_VERSION_MINOR" llvm/CMakeLists.txt|sed -e "s|.*LLVM_VERSION_MINOR \(.*\))|\1|")
-    PATCH=$(grep "set(LLVM_VERSION_PATCH" llvm/CMakeLists.txt|sed -e "s|.*LLVM_VERSION_PATCH \(.*\))|\1|")
-    CURRENT_VERSION="$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH"
+    if test $MAJOR_VERSION != "snapshot"; then
+        # When upstream released X, they will update X to have X.0.1
+        # In general, in Debian, we will keep X until X.0.1 is released (or rc in experimental)
+        # However, on apt.llvm.org, we will update the version to have X.0.1
+        # This code is doing that.
+        MAJOR=$(grep "set(LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR" llvm/CMakeLists.txt|sed -e "s|.*LLVM_VERSION_MAJOR \(.*\))|\1|")
+        MINOR=$(grep "set(LLVM_VERSION_MINOR" llvm/CMakeLists.txt|sed -e "s|.*LLVM_VERSION_MINOR \(.*\))|\1|")
+        PATCH=$(grep "set(LLVM_VERSION_PATCH" llvm/CMakeLists.txt|sed -e "s|.*LLVM_VERSION_PATCH \(.*\))|\1|")
+        CURRENT_VERSION="$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH"
+    fi
     # the + is here to make sure that this version is considered more recent than the svn
     # dpkg --compare-versions 10~svn374977-1~exp1 lt 10~+2019-svn374977-1~exp1
     # to verify that