diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6ec6614..39d57f9 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Section: devel
 Priority: extra
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), build-essential, mono-gmcs, python-dev, ant,
-    mono-devel,  libmono-system-web2.0-cil, erlang-base, ruby1.8-dev, autoconf, python-support,
-    automake, pkg-config, libtool, bison, flex, libboost-dev | libboost1.40-dev, python-all,
+    mono-devel,  libmono-system-web2.0-cil, erlang-base, ruby1.8-dev, autoconf, automake,
+    pkg-config, libtool, bison, flex, libboost-dev | libboost1.40-dev, python-all,
     python-all-dev, python-all-dbg, openjdk-6-jdk | java-sdk,
     libboost-test-dev | libboost-test1.40-dev, libevent-dev, perl (>= 5.8.0-7),
     php5, php5-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libqt4-dev
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 Vcs-Git: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=thrift.git
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
-XS-Python-Version: >= 2.4
+X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
 
 Package: thrift-compiler
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/docs b/debian/docs
index e845566..b43bf86 100644
--- a/debian/docs
+++ b/debian/docs
@@ -1 +1 @@
-README
+README.md
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8995f9c..633b17e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@
 	dh_strip -Npython-thrift-dbg
 	dh_compress
 	dh_fixperms
-	dh_pysupport
 	dh_makeshlibs
 	dh_installdeb
 	dh_perl