diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index cd78b989a..bc1933c9e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
-#!/usr/bin/make -f
-
-build: build-stamp
-build-stamp:
-	dh_testdir
-
-	#./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc
-	./configure --enable-packager-mode --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc
-	# ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man
-	$(MAKE)
-	# $(MAKE) html
-
-	touch build-stamp
+ #!/usr/bin/make -f
+ 
+# This file was automatically generated by stdeb 0.6.0 at
+# Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:28:27 +0100
+ 
+# Unset the environment variables set by dpkg-buildpackage. (This is
+# necessary because distutils is brittle with compiler/linker flags
+# set. Specifically, packages using f2py will break without this.)
+unexport CPPFLAGS
+unexport CFLAGS
+unexport CXXFLAGS
+unexport FFLAGS
+unexport LDFLAGS
+ 
+#exports specified using stdeb Setup-Env-Vars:
+export DH_OPTIONS=--buildsystem=python_distutils
 
 clean:
 	dh_testdir