diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 10077ffbaf..7b3a39e51d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ tor (0.2.0.27-rc-X) Xxperimental; urgency=low
     description.
   * No longer ignore failure of make clean in the clean target.
   * Support passing of parallel=<n> in build options.
+  * Change declared Standards-Version to 3.8.0.
 
- -- Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:58:37 +0200
+ -- Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:59:24 +0200
 
 tor (0.2.0.26-rc-1) experimental; urgency=critical
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 616d829821..5928e728b1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: comm
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.65), libssl-dev, dpatch, zlib1g-dev, libevent-dev (>= 1.1), texlive-base-bin, texlive-latex-base, texlive-fonts-recommended, transfig, gs, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.7)
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 Homepage: https://www.torproject.org/
 
 Package: tor