diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0b487234..91decad4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ midori (0.1.6-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * use 'dh --with quilt' for patching instead of including
     /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make
   * fix format of debian/copyright
+  * build dep on debhelper 7.0.50 instead of 7.2
 
- -- Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com>  Thu, 14 May 2009 22:30:04 -0700
+ -- Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com>  Thu, 14 May 2009 22:32:51 -0700
 
 midori (0.1.6-1) experimental; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2159a52b..2583e042 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: web
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 7.2),
+ debhelper (>= 7.0.50),
  quilt (>= 0.46-7),
  libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10),
  libglib2.0-dev,