diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index eab35db5..a6f32346 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 screen-profiles (1.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
-  * 
+  * debian/control: debhelper 6; add explanation to the description as to why
+    the Suggests are useful; add Enhances note
+  * debian/rules: use -i in the binary-indep section, remove unneeded dh_clean
+    arguments
+  * profiles/ubuntu: remove the |-separators
+  * bin/updates-available: allow for faster startup by skipping the apt-check
+    on initial run
 
- -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:45:39 -0600
+ -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:43:48 -0600
 
 screen-profiles (1.9-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f9435d2f..09c87474 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: misc
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>
 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6)
 Homepage: http://launchpad.net/screen-profiles
 Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kirkland/screen-profiles/main
 
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, screen, gettext-base, python, python-newt
 Recommends: update-notifier-common
 Suggests: bc
+Enhances: screen
 Description: a set of useful profiles and a profile-switcher for GNU screen
  screen-profiles includes a set of profiles for the GNU screen window manager.
  These profiles are quite useful on server machines which are not running
@@ -20,3 +21,8 @@ Description: a set of useful profiles and a profile-switcher for GNU screen
  provide features such as status bars, clocks, notifiers (reboot-required,
  updates-available), etc.  The profile-switcher allows users to quickly switch
  their .screenrc to any of the available profiles.
+ .
+ bc provides more advanced calculations of memory and cpu-speed in the
+ status panel.  update-notifier-common provides a more efficient and standard
+ mechanism for calculating the number of updates available in the status
+ panel.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 063226bf..ace40509 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ prebuild:
 build:
 
 clean:
-	dh_clean debian/${PACKAGE} debian/files debian/${PACKAGE}.debhelper.log
+	dh_clean
 
 install:build
 	dh_testdir
@@ -30,19 +30,19 @@ install:build
 
 # Build architecture-independent files here.
 binary-indep: build install
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_installdocs -X.bzr
-	dh_installman screen-launcher.1 screen-profiles-helper.1 select-screen-profile.1
-	dh_installchangelogs README
-	dh_installdebconf
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-	dh_link /etc/screenrc usr/share/${PACKAGE}/profiles/plain
-	dh_installdeb
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
+	dh_testdir -i
+	dh_testroot -i
+	dh_installdocs -X.bzr -i
+	dh_installman -i screen-launcher.1 screen-profiles-helper.1 select-screen-profile.1
+	dh_installchangelogs -i README
+	dh_installdebconf -i
+	dh_compress -i
+	dh_fixperms -i
+	dh_link -i /etc/screenrc usr/share/${PACKAGE}/profiles/plain
+	dh_installdeb -i
+	dh_gencontrol -i
+	dh_md5sums -i
+	dh_builddeb -i
 
 binary: binary-indep
 .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary install prebuild get-orig-source