diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f0796c4..9bdcfee 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     Thanks to Petr Cvek for the report and Le Gall Guillaume for further
     investigations and the patch. (Closes: #912631)
   * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.3.0.
+  * Override dh_shlibdeps and fix broken link against libjawt.so.
 
  -- Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org>  Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:35:13 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 4757fe9..d8f5ba3 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -18,3 +18,8 @@
 
 override_dh_auto_clean:
 	find src/native/ -name '*org_lwjgl_*.h' -delete
+
+override_dh_shlibdeps:
+	#workaround for "couldn't find libjawt.so"
+	LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/lib:$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH)" dh_shlibdeps
+