diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 45f46477..05dbc10b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: mail
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Paul J Stevens <paul@nfg.nl>
 Build-Depends: automake1.9, debhelper (>= 5.0.7), dpatch, libsieve2-dev (>= 2.1.12), libglib2.0-dev, libgmime-2.0-2-dev | libgmime2.1-dev, libldap2-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libpq-dev, libmysqlclient15-dev | libmysqlclient14-dev, pkg-config, libtool, asciidoc, xmlto, chrpath, po-debconf
-Standards-Version: 3.8.3
+Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 
 Package: dbmail
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 7a410990..579e41c6 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -66,10 +66,8 @@ stamps/build: stamps patch configure $(PACKAGES)
 stamps:
 	mkdir stamps
 	
-configure: stamps/configure
-stamps/configure: 
+configure:
 	autoreconf -i
-	touch $@
 
 dbmail: stamps/dbmail
 stamps/dbmail:
@@ -159,5 +157,5 @@ binary-%: build install
 	
 binary: binary-indep binary-arch
 
-.PHONY: build clean clean1 mrproper patch binary binary-common binary-indep binary-arch unpatch configure install
+.PHONY: build clean clean1 mrproper patch binary binary-common binary-indep binary-arch unpatch install