diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 7f8f011..ec63514 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 324e875..a074034 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.9.0~)
 Homepage: http://pnm2ppa.sf.net/
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pnm2ppa.git
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pnm2ppa.git
diff --git a/debian/source.lintian-overrides b/debian/source.lintian-overrides
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27e97b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source.lintian-overrides
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# This is needed for "auto-buildflags"
+package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends 9