diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ebf82b005..ff1a4b82d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ cmake (2.8.0-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Update bootstraptest_increase_timeout.diff with upstream version. My previous
     patch didn't work.
+  * Revert previous "Build with g++-4.4 on hppa" change. It was not needed, build
+    with default compiler on hppa.
 
  -- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>  Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:53 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1974536e8..40d853453 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
 Uploaders: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
 DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.3), libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libxmlrpc-c3-dev, libexpat1-dev, zlib1g-dev,
- libncurses5-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0), g++-4.4 [hppa]
+ libncurses5-dev, libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0)
 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/cmake.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cmake.git;a=summary
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 215ef4d82..fbe1f77b2 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -7,12 +7,6 @@ ifeq ($(shell arch),parisc64)
 CFLAGS += -ffunction-sections
 endif
 
-# Build with gcc 4.4 on hppa
-ifeq ($(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH),hppa)
-export CC=gcc-4.4
-export CXX=g++-4.4
-endif
-
 $(BUILD_FLAGS_FILE):
 	touch $@
 	echo 'set(CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH YES CACHE BOOL "Skip rpath" FORCE)'          >> $@