diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3f3c2e6e4..9979929c0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 cmake (2.8.0-5) unstable; urgency=low
 
+  * Skip the unpredictably long and rather pointless BootstrapTest
+    (Closes: #558001).
 
  -- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>  Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:20:46 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 7979f97c3..93f3c8e22 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ $(BUILD_FLAGS_FILE):
 	echo 'set(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE ON CACHE BOOL "Verbose build" FORCE)'  >> $@
 	echo 'set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "$(CFLAGS)" CACHE STRING "C flags" FORCE)'      >> $@
 	echo 'set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "$(CFLAGS)" CACHE STRING "C++ flags" FORCE)'  >> $@
+	echo 'set(CMAKE_SKIP_BOOTSTRAP_TEST ON CACHE BOOL "Skip BootstrapTest" FORCE)' >> $@
 #	echo 'set(BUILD_WXDialog ON CACHE STRING "Build WXDialog" FORCE)'      >> $@
 	echo 'set(BUILD_CursesDialog TRUE CACHE BOOL "Build curses GUI" FORCE)' >> $@
 	echo 'set(BUILD_QtDialog TRUE CACHE BOOL "Build Qt4 GUI" FORCE)'        >> $@