diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dbb90ac..5463d3b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
   * Run wrap-and-sort -at.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8.
   * Use canonical URLs for Vcs-* fields, switch to https.
+  * Drop --disable-silent-rules from debian/rules. This is now handled by dh
+    directly depending on whether the DH_QUIET environment variable is set.
 
  -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Thu, 26 May 2016 05:41:36 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 1c2695f..b1f80f0 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 	dh $@ --with autoreconf
 
 export LDFLAGS := $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS) -Wl,--as-needed
-
-override_dh_auto_configure:
-	dh_auto_configure -- --disable-silent-rules
 
 override_dh_link:
 	dh_link -plibatasmart-dev lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/$$(basename $$(readlink debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libatasmart.so)) usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libatasmart.so