diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cc2f9f2..61ca8ee 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   * New upstream release
   * Update Standards-Version: 3.9.4 (no changes)
   * Use canonical URLs for the Vcs-* fields
+  * debian/rules: Improved the clean target to allow rebuilds
 
  -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:38:00 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c0c21cd..a2176b3 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 
 clean::
 	mh_clean
+	rm -Rf target
+	mh_unpatchpoms -p$(PACKAGE)
 
 get-orig-source:
 	uscan --force-download --rename