diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 04c5589b2..f96d10d0e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: shells
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: ridiculous_fish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>
 Uploaders: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), libncurses5-dev, cmake3 (>= 3.2.0) | cmake (>= 3.2.0), gettext,
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20151004), libncurses5-dev, cmake (>= 3.2.0), gettext,
 # Test dependencies
  locales-all, python3
 # When libpcre2-dev is available on all supported Debian versions, add a dependency on that.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 6c0eafbd8..fd91b414e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ export DH_VERBOSE=1
 	dh $@
 
 override_dh_auto_configure:
-	# Until all platforms have debhelper 9.20151004, Debian bug 719148 needs to be worked around
-	dh_auto_configure --buildsystem=cmake --parallel -- -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc
+	dh_auto_configure --buildsystem=cmake --parallel
 
 override_dh_installdocs:
 	dh_installdocs --link-doc=fish