diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8570c008158..025db1dbcf6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@
 #TLS=1
 #SCTP=1
 #FREERADIUS=1
+# freeradius libs check (must be done in toplevel makefile)
+ifneq ("$(wildcard /usr/include/freeradius-client.h)","")
+FREERADIUS=1
+else
+#FREERADIUS=0
+endif
+
 NICER?=1
 auto_gen=lex.yy.c cfg.tab.c   #lexx, yacc etc
 
@@ -52,6 +59,13 @@ DEFS:=
 TLS?=
 SCTP?=
 
+# json libs check
+ifneq ("$(wildcard /usr/include/json-c/json.h)","")
+DEFS += -I/usr/include/json-c
+else
+DEFS += -I/usr/include/json
+endif
+
 # create the template only if the file is not yet created
 ifeq (,$(wildcard Makefile.conf))
 $(shell cp Makefile.conf.template Makefile.conf)
diff --git a/packaging/debian/control b/packaging/debian/control
index 86a00941efd..6d1d91424d8 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/control
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Bogdan Iancu <bogdan@opensips.org>
 Uploaders: Bogdan Iancu <bogdan@opensips.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), dpatch, libmysqlclient-dev, libexpat1-dev, libxml2-dev, libpq-dev, libradiusclient-ng-dev, flex, bison, zlib1g-dev, unixodbc-dev, libxmlrpc-c3-dev, libperl-dev, libsnmp-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19), libdb-dev (>= 4.6.19), xsltproc, libconfuse-dev, libldap2-dev, libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libgeoip-dev (>= 1.4.4), libpcre3-dev, libmemcached-dev, libjson0-dev, libmicrohttpd-dev, libhiredis-dev, librabbitmq-dev, liblua5.1-dev, libncurses5-dev, libmemcache-dev
-Standards-Version: 3.9.1
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libmysqlclient-dev, libexpat1-dev, libxml2-dev, libpq-dev, flex, bison, zlib1g-dev, unixodbc-dev, libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev, libperl-dev, libsnmp-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1.1), libdb-dev (>= 4.6.19), xsltproc, libconfuse-dev, libldap2-dev, libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libgeoip-dev (>= 1.4.4), libpcre3-dev, libmemcached-dev, libjson0-dev, libmicrohttpd-dev, libhiredis-dev, librabbitmq-dev, liblua5.1-dev, libncurses5-dev, libfreeradius-client-dev | libradiusclient-ng-dev, libjson0-dev, libsctp-dev
+Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 Homepage: http://www.opensips.org/
 
 Package: opensips
diff --git a/packaging/debian/rules b/packaging/debian/rules
index 479c3894d15..5797f99b0dc 100755
--- a/packaging/debian/rules
+++ b/packaging/debian/rules
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@ URL := http://opensips.org/pub/opensips/$(UPVERSION)/src/opensips-$(UPVERSION)-t
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 # export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
-# Include dpatch rules
-include /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make
-
-
 # Do we want the TLS version ?
 # Disabled by default due to license issues, set to non-void to enable
 TLS=
@@ -41,7 +37,7 @@ ALL_MODPKG_LIST := \
 	MYSQL POSTGRES UNIXODBC JABBER CPL RADIUS \
 	PRESENCE XMLRPC PERL SNMPSTATS XMPP CROUTE BERKELEY LDAP \
 	GEOIP REGEX IDENTITY B2BUA DBHTTP DIALPLAN MEMCACHED JSON \
-	REDIS RABBITMQ LUA HTTP
+	REDIS RABBITMQ HTTP
 
 ifeq ($(BUILD_MODPKG_LIST),NONE)
 override BUILD_MODPKG_LIST :=
@@ -184,7 +180,7 @@ configure-stamp:
 
 
 build: build-stamp
-build-stamp: patch-stamp configure-stamp 
+build-stamp: configure-stamp 
 	dh_testdir
 
 	# Add here commands to compile the package.