diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index affa947..00d1fad 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Uploaders: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>,
            Julien Lavergne <gilir@ubuntu.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11),
                dh-python,
+               pyqt5-dev-tools,
                python3-all,
                python3-distutils,
                python3-distutils-extra,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 17f5ab8..ab86d87 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ export DH_VERBOSE = 1
 export PYBUILD_NAME=lubuntu-about
 
 %:
+	(cd src && make clean && make)
 	dh $@ --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
 
 override_dh_python3: