diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fa0a536..4c88058 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ nut (2.7.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no further changes)
   * debian/tests/control: Add lsb-release and netcat to the dependencies
     (Closes: #733189)
+  * debian/control, debian/rules: Call dh-autoreconf and pass LDFLAGS to
+    minimize runtime dependencies
 
  -- Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:42:08 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3e32d44..b821640 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Uploaders: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.1.3),
                cdbs (>= 0.4.122~),
                autotools-dev,
+               dh-autoreconf,
                dh-systemd (>= 1.14),
                libgd-dev | libgd2-xpm-dev | libgd2-noxpm-dev,
                libsnmp-dev | libsnmp9-dev,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 570cf28..4e13232 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -4,12 +4,20 @@ include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/python-module.mk
 
+include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/autoreconf.mk
+# We cannot call autoreconf -f -i as it updates INSTALL which is used for doc
+# generation
+DEB_DH_AUTORECONF_ARGS = --as-needed
+
 DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS 2>/dev/null)
 
 # List any files which are not installed
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/utils.mk
 common-binary-post-install-arch:: list-missing
 
+DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND=-Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
+include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk
+
 DEB_CONFIGURE_PREFIX      :=
 DEB_CONFIGURE_SYSCONFDIR  := /etc/nut
 DEB_CONFIGURE_INCLUDEDIR  := /usr/include