diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fac67b661da613f53ecce3322e7b261af84e340d..9741ad4ee4133a5a1348021ccd58efc5c26f2e9c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+python-defaults (2.7.2-11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Bump minimum debhelper version to 8 so all tests will run
+    - dh_python2 tests 1 - 5 require dh 7 and test 6 needs dh 8
+
+ -- Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>  Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:03:44 -0500
+
 python-defaults (2.7.2-10) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Matthias Klose ]
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 838a3f2f0d77f9f183acef510ec5a9cca47f56a2..d8c3bf71bdd9a15884a780025eae5558db97ed15 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
 Uploaders: Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6.0.7~)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8~)
 Build-Depends-Indep: libhtml-tree-perl, debiandoc-sgml, python-docutils (>= 0.4-3)
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
 Homepage: http://www.python.org/