diff --git a/debian/build.xml b/debian/build.xml
index 7aa526e..b700618 100644
--- a/debian/build.xml
+++ b/debian/build.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     <delete dir="${slf4j-nop.dir}/${class.dir}" quiet="true"/>
     <delete dir="${slf4j-simple.dir}/${class.dir}" quiet="true"/>
     <delete dir="${slf4j-migrator.dir}/${class.dir}" quiet="true"/>
-    <delete dir="${slf4j-ext.dir}/${class.dir}" quiet="true"/>
+<!--    <delete dir="${slf4j-ext.dir}/${class.dir}" quiet="true"/> -->
 
     <delete file="${jcl-over-slf4j.jar}" quiet="true"/>
     <delete file="${jul-to-slf4j.jar}" quiet="true"/>
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <delete file="${slf4j-nop.jar}" quiet="true"/>
     <delete file="${slf4j-simple.jar}" quiet="true"/>
     <delete file="${slf4j-migrator.jar}" quiet="true"/>
-    <delete file="${slf4j-ext.jar}" quiet="true"/>
+<!--    <delete file="${slf4j-ext.jar}" quiet="true"/> -->
   </target>
 
   <target name="jar">
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
       </fileset>
     </jar>
 
-    <mkdir dir="${slf4j-ext.dir}/${class.dir}"/>
+<!--    <mkdir dir="${slf4j-ext.dir}/${class.dir}"/>
     <javac srcdir="${slf4j-ext.dir}/${source.dir}" destdir="${slf4j-ext.dir}/${class.dir}"
       debug="true" source="1.5" target="1.5" classpath="${slf4j-api.jar}:/usr/share/java/javassist.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-lang.jar"/>
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
           <include name="**"/>
       </fileset>
     </jar>
-
+-->
   </target>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ae6b2c2..fe037b3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+libslf4j-java (1.5.10-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release
+    - disable build of ext module as org/slf4j/cal10n is
+      not yet in Debian.
+  * Update my email address
+  * Bump debhelper version to >= 7
+
+ -- Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib@debian.org>  Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:35:00 +0100
+
 libslf4j-java (1.5.8-3) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.3
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 1e8b314..7f8f011 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6
+7
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index df22072..956bca6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Section: java
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
-Uploaders: Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org>, Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib@drazzib.com>
-Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 6), ant, default-jdk
+Uploaders: Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org>, Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib@debian.org>
+Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7), ant, default-jdk
 Build-Depends-Indep: maven-repo-helper, liblog4j1.2-java,
  libcommons-logging-java, libcommons-lang-java, libjavassist-java
 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
diff --git a/debian/orig-tar.exclude b/debian/orig-tar.exclude
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c294b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/orig-tar.exclude
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.jar
+*/site*
+*/slf4j-site*
diff --git a/debian/orig-tar.sh b/debian/orig-tar.sh
index abbf1e2..18190af 100755
--- a/debian/orig-tar.sh
+++ b/debian/orig-tar.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
 # $2 = version
+# $3 = file
 DIR=libslf4j-java-$2.orig
+TAR=$3
 
 # clean up the upstream tarball
-tar -z -x -f $3
+tar xzf $TAR
 mv slf4j-$2 $DIR
-GZIP=--best tar -c -z -f $3 --exclude '*.jar' --exclude '*/site*' --exclude '*/slf4j-site*' $DIR
+GZIP=--best tar czf $TAR -X debian/orig-tar.exclude $DIR
 rm -rf $DIR
 
 # move to directory 'tarballs'
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index d88e927..52423f6 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@
 	-rm -rf debian/tmp
 
 get-orig-source:
-	-uscan --download-version $(DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION) --force-download --rename
+	uscan --download-version $(DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION) --force-download --rename