diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 6b40a66ddb6c052985d6cd7de4fd96b7ad42e4aa_ZGViaWFuL2NvbXBhdA==..3c1864f6c6a3f8d1d231b09eda837d2d7184b3ad_ZGViaWFuL2NvbXBhdA== 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-7
+8
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6b40a66ddb6c052985d6cd7de4fd96b7ad42e4aa_ZGViaWFuL2NvbnRyb2w=..3c1864f6c6a3f8d1d231b09eda837d2d7184b3ad_ZGViaWFuL2NvbnRyb2w= 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 Section: web
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE) <contact@logilab.fr>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), python (>= 2.6.5)
+Build-Depends:
+ debhelper (>= 8),
+ python (>= 2.6.5),
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
 
@@ -12,7 +14,7 @@
  cubicweb-web (>= 3.19.0),
  cubicweb-bootstrap (>= 1.0.0),
  ${misc:Depends},
- ${python:Depends}
+ ${python:Depends},
 Description: data-centric user interface for cubicweb based on bootstrap
  CubicWeb is a semantic web application framework.
  .
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 6b40a66ddb6c052985d6cd7de4fd96b7ad42e4aa_ZGViaWFuL3J1bGVz..3c1864f6c6a3f8d1d231b09eda837d2d7184b3ad_ZGViaWFuL3J1bGVz
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
-# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
-# GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.
 
@@ -4,12 +2,3 @@
 
-# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-#export DH_VERBOSE=1
-build: build-arch build-indep
-build-arch:
-	# Nothing to do
-build-indep: build-stamp
-build-stamp:
-	dh_testdir
-	NO_SETUPTOOLS=1 python setup.py -q build
-	touch build-stamp
+export NO_SETUPTOOLS=1
 
@@ -15,9 +4,4 @@
 
-clean:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
-	rm -rf build
-	find . -name "*.pyc" | xargs rm -f
-	dh_clean
+%:
+	dh $@ --with python2
 
@@ -23,8 +7,4 @@
 
-install: build
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k
-	dh_installdirs -i
-	NO_SETUPTOOLS=1 python setup.py -q install --no-compile --prefix=debian/cubicweb-squareui/usr/
+override_dh_auto_install:
+	dh_auto_install
 	# remove generated .egg-info file
@@ -30,4 +10,3 @@
 	# remove generated .egg-info file
-	rm -rf debian/cubicweb-squareui/usr/lib/python*
-
+	rm -rf debian/*/usr/lib/python*
 
@@ -33,11 +12,3 @@
 
-# Build architecture-independent files here.
-binary-indep: build install
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_install -i
-	dh_installchangelogs -i
-	dh_installexamples -i
-	dh_installdocs -i
-	dh_installman -i
+override_dh_python2:
 	dh_python2 -i /usr/share/cubicweb
@@ -43,15 +14,1 @@
 	dh_python2 -i /usr/share/cubicweb
-	dh_link -i
-	dh_compress -i -X.py -X.ini -X.xml -Xtest
-	dh_fixperms -i
-	dh_installdeb -i
-	dh_gencontrol -i
-	dh_md5sums -i
-	dh_builddeb -i
-
-
-# Build architecture-dependent files here.
-binary-arch:
-
-binary: binary-indep
-.PHONY: build clean binary-arch binary-indep binary