diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9f6de27..6e7a734 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
     Thanks! (Closes: #718496)
   * Switch git and collab-maint; update Vcs-* headers accordingly.
   * Bump debhelper compatibility to 10. Update versioned b-d accordingly.
+  * Rewrite debian/rules in minimal dh v7 style.
+    + Use files debian/install and debian/manpages instead of overrides.
 
  -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:33:40 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/install b/debian/install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4e603f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+slay usr/sbin
diff --git a/debian/manpages b/debian/manpages
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55055e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/manpages
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+slay.8
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 4fa7e58..fe9344e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,82 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
-# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
-# GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.
 
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
-configure: configure-stamp
-configure-stamp:
-	dh_testdir
-	# Add here commands to configure the package.
-	
+%:
+	dh $@
 
-	touch configure-stamp
-
-build: configure-stamp build-stamp
-build-stamp:
-	dh_testdir
-
-	# Add here commands to compile the package.
-#	$(MAKE)
-
-	touch build-stamp
-
-clean:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
-
-	# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
-#	-$(MAKE) clean
-
-	dh_clean
-
-install: build
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k
-	dh_installdirs
-
-	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp.
-#	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp
+override_dh_auto_install:
 	install -o root -g root -m 755 slay	debian/slay/usr/sbin
-
-
-# Build architecture-independent files here.
-binary-indep: build install
-#	dh_testversion
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_installdebconf	
-	dh_installdocs
-#	dh_installexamples
-#	dh_installmenu
-#	dh_installemacsen
-#	dh_installpam
-#	dh_installinit
-#	dh_installcron
-	dh_installman slay.8
-#	dh_installinfo
-#	dh_undocumented
-	dh_installchangelogs 
-#	dh_link
-	dh_strip
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-#	# You may want to make some executables suid here.
-#	dh_suidregister
-#	dh_makeshlibs
-	dh_installdeb
-#	dh_perl
-	dh_shlibdeps
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
-
-# Build architecture-dependent files here.
-binary-arch: build install
-# nothing to do, package is arch: all
-
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure