diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f871c39..3d6c526 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,14 +4,16 @@
     + Shows URL already while loading (Closes: #696611)
   * No more hardcode -fPIC, the real source of #664949 seems to have been
     #677705 which has been fixed in the meanwhile.
-  * Bump debhelper compatibility to 9 and use more debhelper stuff
+  * Bump debhelper compatibility to 9 and switch to a dh7 style
+    debian/rules. This includes:
     + Use debian/clean instead of calling rm multiple times in debian/rules
     + Update versioned build-dependency on debhelper
     + Use dh_auto_{configure,build,install}, remove double "make install"
     + Use dh_install instead of calling install directly
     + Use dh_auto_clean and remove intermediate clean-patched make target.
     + Use debian/manpages instead of passing arguments to dh_installman.
-  * Use dh_autoreconf instead of dh_autotools-dev_*config
+    + Use dh_autoreconf instead of dh_autotools-dev_*config
+    + Finally switch the normalized debian/rules to dh7 style.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes)
 
  -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:59:43 +0200
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a986141..6b19e6d 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,53 +2,8 @@
 
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
-configure: config.status
-config.status:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_autoreconf
+%:
+	dh $@ --with autoreconf
+
+override_dh_auto_configure:
 	dh_auto_configure -- --enable-ipv6 --enable-ssl
-
-build: build-arch build-indep
-build-arch: build-stamp
-build-indep: build-stamp
-build-stamp: config.status
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_auto_build
-	touch $@
-
-clean:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_auto_clean
-	dh_autoreconf_clean
-	dh_clean
-
-install: build
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_prep
-	dh_installdirs
-	dh_auto_install
-
-binary-indep: build install
-binary-arch: build install
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_installchangelogs
-	dh_installdocs
-	dh_installexamples
-	dh_installmenu
-	dh_installman
-	dh_install
-	dh_link
-	dh_strip
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-	dh_installdeb
-	dh_shlibdeps
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
-
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure