diff --git a/debian/scripts/misc/getabis b/debian/scripts/misc/getabis
index 8bb7188956a6..d9cf1f250db4 100755
--- a/debian/scripts/misc/getabis
+++ b/debian/scripts/misc/getabis
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ fi
 
 ver=$1
 revision=$2
-abi=$(echo $revision | sed -r -e 's/([^\+~]*)\.[^\.]+(~.*)?(\+.*)?$/\1/')
+abi=${revision%%.*}
 
 verabi=$ver-$abi
 verfull=$ver-$revision