diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8e9cf2d..d132f5c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   * Moved the annotations to the libfindbugs-annotations-java package
   * Depend on libasm-java (>= 5.0) instead of libasm4-java
   * Removed junit4 and jdepend from the runtime dependencies
+  * debian/rules: Generate the man pages during the build phase
   * debian/watch: Track the release tags on GitHub
   * Standards-Version updated to 3.9.8
   * Use secure Vcs-* URLs
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index cda1049..1132f54 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 override_dh_auto_build:
 	ant docs build -Dant.java.version=1.8
 
+	# prepare findbugs.1
+	help2man -h "-help"   -v "-version" -n "Static Java Code Analyzer" ./bin/fb       -o debian/fb.1
+	help2man -h "-textui" -v "-version" -n "Static Java Code Analyzer" ./bin/findbugs -o debian/findbugs.1
+
 override_dh_auto_install:
 	chmod -x $(CURDIR)/bin/findbugs.ico
 
@@ -23,16 +27,6 @@
 	mh_installjar -plibfindbugs-annotations-java debian/poms/findbugs-annotations.pom \
 		--usj-name=findbugs-annotations -l lib/annotations.jar
 
-	# prepare findbugs.1
-	help2man -h "-help" -v "-version" \
-		-n "Static Java Code Analyzer" \
-		$(CURDIR)/debian/findbugs/usr/bin/fb \
-		-o $(CURDIR)/debian/fb.1
-	help2man -h "-textui" -v "-version" \
-		-n "Static Java Code Analyzer" \
-		$(CURDIR)/debian/findbugs/usr/bin/findbugs \
-		-o $(CURDIR)/debian/findbugs.1
-
 override_dh_auto_clean:
 	rm -f $(CURDIR)/debian/findbugs.1 $(CURDIR)/debian/fb.1
 	rm -f lib/*.jar