diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f3855111fd5adaa4ae0e8478732bccbce9634bf4..c49e553e8e179c7c20a416d60fbf2efdad232385 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ cl-asdf (1:20090819-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream, New homepage and new upstream repository.
   * changed section to lisp
+  * now using debhelper v7
 
- -- Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:02:11 +0200
+ -- Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:03:28 +0200
 
 cl-asdf (1.111-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index b8626c4cff2849624fb67f87cd0ad72b163671ad..7f8f011eb73d6043d2e6db9d2c101195ae2801f2 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4
+7
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d739923e05c08ddd2eecc4b6f87a0557e86bb2a2..badbec045c3881bebd7b27372a27d70a0f49b72d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: lisp
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Common Lisp Team <pkg-common-lisp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.0.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7)
 Build-Depends-Indep: cvs2cl, texinfo,texlive-extra-utils, texlive, texlive-generic-recommended, dh-lisp
 Standards-Version: 3.7.3.0
 Homepage: http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c7ea06e8bc28e98562dda6a9cc040a291d7f86b6..2d6b54d60525755a4ed474abcf9a0ef8a3e2e3af 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ binary-arch: build
 binary-indep: build
 	dh_testdir -i
 	dh_testroot -i
-	dh_clean -k -i
+	dh_prep -i
 	chmod +x test/run-tests.sh 
 	dh_installdirs -i
 	dh_install -i