diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ff261da..f871c39 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     + 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
   * 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/control b/debian/control
index b6bcbd4..d55cb2f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.4
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), libfltk1.3-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libpng-dev | libpng12-dev, zlib1g-dev, libjpeg8-dev | libjpeg-dev, autotools-dev, libssl-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~), libfltk1.3-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libpng-dev | libpng12-dev, zlib1g-dev, libjpeg8-dev | libjpeg-dev, dh-autoreconf, libssl-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~)
 Homepage: http://www.dillo.org/
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/dillo.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/dillo.git
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c6cc2f8..a986141 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,11 +3,9 @@
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
 configure: config.status
-config.h.in.backup:
-	[ -f config.h.in.backup ] || cp -pv config.h.in config.h.in.backup
-config.status: config.h.in.backup
+config.status:
 	dh_testdir
-	dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig
+	dh_autoreconf
 	dh_auto_configure -- --enable-ipv6 --enable-ssl
 
 build: build-arch build-indep
@@ -22,8 +20,7 @@
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
 	dh_auto_clean
-	[ ! -f config.h.in.backup ] || mv -v config.h.in.backup config.h.in
-	dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig
+	dh_autoreconf_clean
 	dh_clean
 
 install: build