diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fd4ef72..c45e2b3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   * d/rules: don't build the doc, as there's none to build.
   * d/rules: clean and run upstream testsuite. (Closes: #976753)
   * d/control: use dh-compat and upgrade to dh13.
+  * d/control: Standards-Version update to 4.5.1. Add Rules-Requires-Root.
 
  -- Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:13:44 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 90e90d9..fdd2ba2 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
                javahelper,
                maven-repo-helper,
                clojure,
-Standards-Version: 4.0.0
+Standards-Version: 4.5.1
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/java-classpath-clojure.git
 Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/java-classpath-clojure.git
 Homepage: https://github.com/clojure/java.classpath
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 
 Package: libjava-classpath-clojure
 Architecture: all