diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bca8049..77c9719 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: smartmontools
 Section: utils
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), quilt (>= 0.40), libcam-dev [kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64], automake1.9, autoconf
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6.0.7~), quilt (>= 0.40), libcam-dev [kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64], automake1.9, autoconf
 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 
 Package: smartmontools
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a54e4bb..20f5279 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ binary-arch: build install
 	dh_installcron
 	dh_installman
 	dh_installinfo
+	dh_lintian
 #	dh_installlogcheck
 #	dh_undocumented
 	dh_installchangelogs CHANGELOG
diff --git a/debian/smartmontools.lintian-overrides b/debian/smartmontools.lintian-overrides
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c615f67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/smartmontools.lintian-overrides
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Full stop at end of synopsis is OK - it doesn't end a sentence but is part of
+# an abbreviation.
+smartmontools: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly