diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 13d287e..d65282f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ ps-watcher (1.06-10) unstable; urgency=low
   * Updating standards version to 3.8.0, no changes needed
   * implement machine-interpretable copyright file
   * move autotools-dev to Build-Depends-Indep
+  * cleanup rules a bit
+  * create lintian override for "outdated-autotools-helper-file", which we
+    copy over from autotools-dev
+  * add ${misc:Depends} to Depends
 
  -- Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>  Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:43:55 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 186a1bf..2a45362 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 
 Package: ps-watcher
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${perl:Depends}, libconfig-inifiles-perl
+Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libconfig-inifiles-perl
 Recommends: libsys-syslog-perl
 Description: monitoring a system via ps-like commands
  This program runs the ps command periodically and triggers commands on matches.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 33df5d5..9fd48b9 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ clean: unpatch
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
 	rm -f build-stamp
+	rm -f config.guess config.sub
 
 	# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
 	[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) clean
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ binary-indep: build install
 	dh_builddeb
 
 # Build architecture-dependent files here.
-binary-arch: build install
+binary-arch:
 
 binary: binary-indep binary-arch
 .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install
diff --git a/debian/source.lintian-overrides b/debian/source.lintian-overrides
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b912f83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source.lintian-overrides
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2002-07-23
+outdated-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2001-08-13