diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d251798b..195441ae 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,19 +2,19 @@ Source: tvheadend
 Section: video
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Andreas Öman <andreas@lonelycoder.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), pkg-config, libavahi-client-dev, libssl-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), pkg-config, libavahi-client-dev, libssl-dev, zlib1g-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.7.3
 
 Package: tvheadend
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, libavahi-client3
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, libavahi-client3, zlib1g
 Recommends: xmltv
 Enhances: showtime
 Replaces: hts-tvheadend
 Homepage: http://www.lonelycoder.com/tvheadend
 Description: Tvheadend
- TV backend for use with Showtime, XBMC and various other clients.
- Uses ExtJS 'http://www.extjs.org/'
+ Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources.
+ Can be used as a backend to Showtime, XBMC and various other clients.
 
 Package: tvheadend-dbg
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 9b6d1783..4b9ec472 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export DH_VERBOSE=1
 	dh $@
 
 override_dh_auto_configure:
-	dh_auto_configure -- ${JOBSARGS}
+	dh_auto_configure -- ${JOBSARGS} --enable-avahi --enable-zlib
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
 	make ${JARGS}