diff --git a/Alien/Package/Deb.pm b/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
index 43b2ca2..170d3ce 100644
--- a/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
+++ b/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
@@ -311,13 +311,18 @@ sub prep {
 
 	# A minimal rules file.
 	open (OUT, ">$dir/debian/rules") || die "$dir/debian/rules: $!";
-	print OUT <<EOF;
+	print OUT << 'EOF';
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 # debian/rules for alien
 
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
+# Use v3 compatability mode, so ldconfig gets added to maint scripts.
+export DH_COMAPT=3
+
+PACKAGE=$(shell dh_listpackages)
+
 build:
 	dh_testdir
 
@@ -333,15 +338,17 @@ binary-arch: build
 	dh_testroot
 	dh_clean -k
 	dh_installdirs
-	cp -a `ls -1 |grep -v debian` debian/tmp
+	cp -a `ls -1 |grep -v debian` debian/$(PACKAGE)
 #
-# If you need to move files around in debian/tmp or do some
-# binary patching ... Insert it here
+# If you need to move files around in debian//$(PACKAGE) or do some
+# binary patching, do it here
 #
 	dh_installdocs
 	dh_installchangelogs
+# This has been known to break on some wacky binaries.
 #	dh_strip
 	dh_compress
+# This is too paramoid to be generally useful to alien.
 #	dh_fixperms
 	dh_installdeb
 	-dh_shlibdeps
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f6e0631..a242182 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+alien (7.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Updated to use debhelper v3 when converting packages. This
+    automatically should make it start adding ldconfig calls
+    as appropriate to maintainer scripts. Closes: #86088
+  * It does mean you need debhelper 3.x for alien to convert to 
+    deb now, so alien-extra will need an update.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:33:07 -0800
+
 alien (7.18) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Build with debhelper v3.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7b30bf1..b0c8317 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.5.0.0
 Package: alien
 Architecture: all
 Section: admin
-Depends: debhelper (>= 2.1.0), ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio
+Depends: debhelper (>= 3), ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio
 Suggests: patch, bzip2
 Description: Install Red Hat, Stampede, and Slackware Packages with dpkg.
  Alien allows you to convert Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into