diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 98d814a2..d461f7ea 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ fail2ban (0.8.7-1) experimental; urgency=low
       Thanks Glenn Aaldering for the patch
   * debian/source:
     - switch to 3.0 (quilt) format
+  * debian/control,rules:
+    - switch to use dh_python2 (Closes: #616803)
+    - boost policy compliance to 3.9.3
 
  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:51:40 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 29d41804..bdb1b540 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@ Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), python (>= 2.5.4-1~)
-Build-Depends-Indep: python-central (>= 0.5.6)
-XS-Python-Version: current, >= 2.4
 Homepage: http://www.fail2ban.org
 Vcs-Git: git://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban
-Standards-Version: 3.9.2
+Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 
 
 Package: fail2ban
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8b75992c..5eccf9f8 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -62,13 +62,16 @@ binary-indep: install
 	dh_installdocs
 	dh_installexamples config/jail.conf files/ipmasq-*
 	dh_installlogrotate
-	dh_pycentral
+	dh_python2 /usr/share/fail2ban
 	dh_installinit -- defaults 99
-	# perform swap of order of calls to init and pycentral in prerm
-	# to close #422655 -- pycentral section is cut and placed at
-	# the end of the file
-	sed -i -e '/^#.*ed by dh_pycentral/,/# End auto/{H;d};$$G' \
+
+	# perform swap of order of calls to init and pycentral (or even
+	# bleedingly new dh_python2) in prerm to close #422655 --
+	# python-cleanup section is cut and placed at the end of the file
+	# since .init script would trigger their compilation again
+	sed -i -e '/^#.*ed by dh_python2/,/# End auto/{H;d};$$G' \
 		debian/fail2ban.prerm.debhelper
+
 	dh_installman man/*.1
 	dh_link
 	dh_compress