diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 13807b3cd..679fecb40 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ cmake (2.8.7-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Properly detect mipsel as little endian architecture. Fixes FTBFS (patch
     mipsel_is_little_endian.diff).
+  * Bump debhelper compat level to 9 in order to receive build flags
+    automagically.
 
  -- Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:29:30 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 45a4fb75d..ec635144f 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8
+9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 46a2ff82a..e490c9c6f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ 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, libexpat1-dev, zlib1g-dev,
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), 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: 3.9.2