diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8c6dbabc..6f631941 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ export VERSION 		= $(shell grep -E "version = '.*';" functions.inc.php |sed -e "
 export DEBVERSION	= $(shell grep -E "postfixadmin .([0-9]+|\.)+" debian/changelog |head -1 |sed -e "s/postfixadmin .//" |sed -e "s/-.*//")
 
 
+# Create a needed tar.gz file to build a non-nativ .dpkg
+prep:
+	rm -f ../postfixadmin_*orig.tar.gz
+	cd ..; tar --exclude-vcs --exclude=$(notdir ${CURDIR})/debian  --exclude=$(notdir ${CURDIR})/.pc -cvzf postfixadmin_${DEBVERSION}.orig.tar.gz $(notdir ${CURDIR}) 
+
 build: build-arch build-indep
 build-arch: build-stamp
 build-indep: build-stamp