diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 99dc986a21..3d4a9d965f 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: libs
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>=2.0), flex, bison, gettext, libgtk1.2-dev, python (>=2.2), python (<<2.3), python2.2-dev, zlib1g-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libpng3-dev, libtiff3g-dev, libgl-dev, libesd0-dev
 Maintainer: Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.5.7.0
+Standards-Version: 3.5.8.0
 
 Package: libwxbase=V
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index dfc84b823e..84122bc11c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -484,7 +484,6 @@ clean: debian/control
 	rm -f $(objdir_i18n)/*.mo
 
 	cd wxPython \
-		&& ./setup.py clean \
 		&& rm -rf licence \
 		&& rm -rf build \
 		&& rm -rf contrib/gizmos/contrib \
@@ -493,6 +492,10 @@ clean: debian/control
 		&& rm -rf contrib/xrc/contrib \
 		&& rm -rf *.pyc
 
+# We do the equivalent of this above by removing build, unfortunately
+# its not enough by itself to get the tree properly clean again.
+#		&& ./setup.py clean
+
 	dh_clean
 	rm -f debian/$(package_wxbase_lib).*
 	rm -f debian/$(package_wxbase_dev).*