diff -Nru tar-1.28/debian/changelog tar-1.28/debian/changelog
--- tar-1.28/debian/changelog	2015-11-04 03:58:23.000000000 +0000
+++ tar-1.28/debian/changelog	2015-11-04 09:06:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
-tar (1.28-2ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
+tar (1.28-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
+  * Disable silent rules, to have more verbose builds.
+  * Fix missing MAKEFLAGS in $(MAKE) call, preventing parallel builds.
+
+  [ Marc Deslauriers ]
   * debian/patches/use-sort-in-t-dir-tests.diff: upstream patch to fix
-    test sort order.
+    test sort order (Closes: #803012)
 
- -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:57:36 -0600
+ -- Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>  Wed, 04 Nov 2015 10:04:22 +0100
 
 tar (1.28-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff -Nru tar-1.28/debian/control tar-1.28/debian/control
--- tar-1.28/debian/control	2015-11-04 03:58:36.000000000 +0000
+++ tar-1.28/debian/control	2015-09-28 22:26:37.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 Source: tar
 Section: utils
 Priority: required
-Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
-XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
+Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
 Uploaders: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 5), gettext, autoconf, automake, autopoint, autotools-dev, libacl1-dev, libattr1-dev, libselinux1-dev [linux-any]
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
diff -Nru tar-1.28/debian/rules tar-1.28/debian/rules
--- tar-1.28/debian/rules	2015-09-28 22:26:37.000000000 +0000
+++ tar-1.28/debian/rules	2015-11-04 09:03:40.000000000 +0000
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 		--libexecdir=/usr/lib/tar \
 		--enable-backup-scripts \
 		--with-lzma=xz \
+		--disable-silent-rules \
 		$(CONFARGS) 
 	touch configure-stamp
 
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
 build-stamp: configure-stamp
 	dh_testdir
 	RSH="/usr/bin/rsh" CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \
-		LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" $(MAKE)
+		LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" $(MAKE) $(MAKEFLAGS)
 
 ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE),$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))