diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 1e8b314..45a4fb7 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6
+8
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3c0cd98..527daee 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
 Uploaders: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), quilt
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8)
 Build-Depends-Indep: ant, default-jdk, libjgraph-java
 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 Homepage: http://microba.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ea6ad6b..b08bb0b 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,58 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
-# -*- makefile -*-
-# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
-# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
-# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
-# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
-# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-make.
 
-# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
 
-include /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make
+%:
+	dh $@
 
-get-orig-source:
-	uscan --verbose --force-download
+override_dh_auto_build:
+	dh_auto_build -- bin_release doc_release
 
-build: build-stamp
-build-stamp: $(QUILT_STAMPFN)
-	dh_testdir
-	JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java ant bin_release doc_release
-	touch $@
+override_dh_auto_clean:
+	$(RM) -vr compile redist javadoc
 
-clean: unpatch
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	rm -f build-stamp install-stamp
-	$(RM) -vr compile redist javadoc
-	dh_clean
-
-install: install-stamp
-install-stamp: build-stamp
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k
-	dh_installdirs
-	touch $@
-
-# Build architecture-independent files here.
-binary-indep: build install
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
+override_dh_installchangelogs:
 	dh_installchangelogs change.log.txt
-	dh_installdocs
-	dh_install
-	dh_link
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-	dh_installdeb
-	dh_shlibdeps
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
-
-
-# Build architecture-dependent files here.
-binary-arch: build install
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install