diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f4dd78475..34823a6f9 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ Description: low-level Git library
  This package contains the development files for libgit2.
 
 Package: libgit2-0
-Section: libs
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: low-level Git library
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 671b07e06..a197a8dd7 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Format: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5
+Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
 Upstream-Name: libgit2
 Source: http://libgit2.github.com/