diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 28ec49076..268e9d888 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ cmake (2.8.4+dfsg.1-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Generate colour Makefiles when $TERM is set to 'screen-256color-bce'.
     Thanks to Davide Mancusi for the patch (screen-256color-bce.diff).
     (Closes: #627853)
+  * Add libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev as a preferred alternative to libxmlrpc-c3-dev
+    in Build-Depends. libxmlrpc-c3-dev has become a transitional package.
 
  -- Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>  Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:38:25 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c8f475e7e..537db587b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>
 Uploaders: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>, Kai Wasserbäch <curan@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libxmlrpc-c3-dev, libexpat1-dev, zlib1g-dev,
- libncurses5-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0), procps [!hurd-any], libarchive-dev (>= 2.8.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libexpat1-dev, zlib1g-dev,
+ libncurses5-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0), procps [!hurd-any], libarchive-dev (>= 2.8.0),
+ libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev | libxmlrpc-c3-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/cmake.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cmake.git;a=summary