diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 95684b68..a1b7cefe 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 llvm-toolchain-snapshot (1:8~svn336894-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
+  * Force sphinx to be >> 1.2.3
+
+  [ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ]
+  * Don't build with ld.gold on powerpcspe
+  * Disable polly on powerpcspe
+  * Add upstream patch to make rustc build on powerpc
+
+  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
+  * Enable lld on ppc64el
+
+ -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:19:54 +0200
+
+llvm-toolchain-7 (1:7~+rc1-1~exp3) experimental; urgency=medium
+
   [ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ]
   * Don't build with ld.gold on powerpcspe
   * Disable polly on powerpcspe
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 26c0fe4d..1b610bed 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Uploaders: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0), flex, bison, dejagnu, tcl, expect,
     cmake, perl, libtool, chrpath, texinfo, sharutils, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.9),
     lsb-release, patchutils, diffstat, xz-utils, python-dev,
-    libedit-dev, libncurses5-dev, swig, python-six, python-sphinx, binutils-dev,
+    libedit-dev, libncurses5-dev, swig, python-six, python-sphinx (>> 1.2.3),
+    binutils-dev,
     libjsoncpp-dev, pkg-config,
     lcov, procps, help2man, zlib1g-dev,
     g++-multilib [amd64 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 mips mips64 mips64el mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 s390x sparc sparc64 x32],
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 4e9de112..d6f571b4 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -58,9 +58,7 @@ impl-path-hurd.diff
 openmp-check-execstack.diff
 openmp-soname.diff
 openmp-mips-affinity.patch
-
 D51108.diff
-
 # libcxx
 
 libcxxabi-test-don-t-fail-extended-long-double.patch
diff --git a/debian/qualify-clang.sh b/debian/qualify-clang.sh
index d85ddf4c..519b3e0c 100644
--- a/debian/qualify-clang.sh
+++ b/debian/qualify-clang.sh
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ clang-$VERSION -fuse-ld=lld -O2 foo.c main.c -o foo
 clang-$VERSION -fuse-ld=lld-$VERSION -O2 foo.c main.c -o foo
 ./foo > /dev/null
 
+clang-$VERSION -flto=thin -O2 foo.c main.c -c
+clang-$VERSION -flto=thin -O2 foo.o main.o -o a.out
+
 cat << EOF > test_fuzzer.cc
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stddef.h>