diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
index b3b0cf5926d..0d25f0c4f39 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-03-06  Phil Edwards  <pme@gcc.gnu.org>
+
+	* update_version:  Don't indent the version string.
+
 2002-03-05  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
 
 	* snapshot-README: Note that snapshots come from the 3.1 branch.
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/update_version b/maintainer-scripts/update_version
index 2b3362eb1fb..de8ef9f2c04 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/update_version
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/update_version
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ for BRANCH in $BRANCHES; do
     if test -f $file; then 
       OLD_VERSION=`/bin/cat $file`
       /bin/sed -e "s/\(.*\"[^ ]*\) [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/\1 ${CURR_DATE}/" >${file} <<HERE
-        $OLD_VERSION
+$OLD_VERSION
 HERE
 
       COMMIT_FILES="$COMMIT_FILES $file"
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ HERE
     if test -f $file; then 
       OLD_VERSION=`/bin/cat $file`
       /bin/sed -e "s/\(#.*\) [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/\1 ${CURR_DATE}/" >${file} <<HERE
-        $OLD_VERSION
+$OLD_VERSION
 HERE
 
       COMMIT_FILES="$COMMIT_FILES $file"