diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 41105142..70a72030 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -507,6 +507,12 @@ llvm-toolchain-snapshot (1:8~svn340819-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 llvm-toolchain-7 (1:7.0.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Add 'Rules-Requires-Root: no' in debian/control
+  * llvm-7-examples: Force the same version of llvm-7-dev to mitigate
+    a debci issue
+    https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/l/llvm-toolchain-7/1635547/log.gz
+  * Add 'Rules-Requires-Root: no' in debian/control
+  * Because more and more tools in clang-tools are in python, add
+    the dependency
 
  -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>  Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:00:41 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 79268890..7b877485 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Description: C, C++ and Objective-C compiler
 Package: clang-tools-8
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, clang-8 (= ${binary:Version})
+ python
 Description: clang-based tools for C/C++ developments
  Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end
  based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the
diff --git a/debian/qualify-clang.sh b/debian/qualify-clang.sh
index 265905d4..75c3168f 100755
--- a/debian/qualify-clang.sh
+++ b/debian/qualify-clang.sh
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ if llvm-config-$VERSION --cxxflags | grep " \-W"; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+# Test https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40059
+nm /usr/lib/llvm-$VERSION/lib/libLLVMBitWriter.a &> foo.log
+if grep "File format not recognized" foo.log; then
+    echo "nm libLLVMBitWriter.a contains 'File format not recognized'"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 echo '#include <stdlib.h>
 int main() {
   char *x = (char*)malloc(10 * sizeof(char*));