diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1a4e341..73f50f8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 
   [ gregor herrmann ]
   * New upstream release 0.19.
+  * Convert to source format 3.0 (quilt).
+  * Minimize debian/rules.
+  * Set Standards-Version to 3.8.4; drop version from perl build dependency.
 
  -- gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:10:19 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4c98b9c..88bb356 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
  Jose Luis Rivas <ghostbar38@gmail.com>, Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>,
  gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7)
-Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.8.8-7), libnet-ssleay-perl (>= 1.30)
-Standards-Version: 3.8.0
+Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libnet-ssleay-perl (>= 1.30)
+Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Component-SSLify/
 Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-perl/trunk/libpoe-component-sslify-perl/
 Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libpoe-component-sslify-perl/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 0d045f4..2d33f6a 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,23 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
-build: build-stamp
-build-stamp:
-	dh build
-	touch $@
-
-clean:
+%:
 	dh $@
-
-install: install-stamp
-install-stamp: build-stamp
-	dh install
-	touch $@
-
-binary-arch:
-
-binary-indep: install
-	dh $@
-
-binary: binary-arch binary-indep
-
-.PHONY: binary binary-arch binary-indep install clean build
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..163aaf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (quilt)