diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a8d3ce6..0ff940a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ smartmontools (6.4+svn4109-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Bump standards version (no further changes required)
   * Enhance rules clean target to make repeated builds easier
   * Stop installing duplicate/irrelevant docs (COPYING, changelog, INSTALL)
+  * add 'set -e' to postrm.
 
  -- Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>  Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:04:15 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/smartmontools.postrm b/debian/smartmontools.postrm
index 6483078..8790b1d 100644
--- a/debian/smartmontools.postrm
+++ b/debian/smartmontools.postrm
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+set -e
 
 case "$1" in
   purge)