diff -Nru dieharder-3.31.1~20110601/debian/changelog dieharder-3.31.1/debian/changelog
--- dieharder-3.31.1~20110601/debian/changelog	2011-12-05 10:02:41.000000000 +0000
+++ dieharder-3.31.1/debian/changelog	2011-12-05 10:02:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+dieharder (3.31.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/control: Switch Build-Depeds: from gs-common to ghostscript
+  							(Closes: #649706)
+  
+ -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:18:46 -0600
+
+dieharder (3.31.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release, but manually tweaking upstream tarball by
+  
+  * debian/rules: Emptying dependency_libs in .la file	(Closes: #621199)
+
+ -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:55:29 -0600
+
 dieharder (3.31.1~20110601-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream test release with improved endianness checks
diff -Nru dieharder-3.31.1~20110601/debian/control dieharder-3.31.1/debian/control
--- dieharder-3.31.1~20110601/debian/control	2011-12-05 10:02:41.000000000 +0000
+++ dieharder-3.31.1/debian/control	2011-12-05 10:02:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.9.1
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), libgsl0-dev, automake, libtool, gs-common, texlive-base, texlive-latex-base, texlive-generic-recommended
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), libgsl0-dev, automake, libtool, ghostscript, texlive-base, texlive-latex-base, texlive-generic-recommended
 
 Package: dieharder
 Architecture: any
diff -Nru dieharder-3.31.1~20110601/debian/rules dieharder-3.31.1/debian/rules
--- dieharder-3.31.1~20110601/debian/rules	2011-12-05 10:02:41.000000000 +0000
+++ dieharder-3.31.1/debian/rules	2011-12-05 10:02:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@
         # end libtool rpath patch
 	touch configure-stamp
 
-build: configure build-stamp
+build: configure build-arch build-indep
+build-arch: build-stamp
+build-indep: build-stamp
 build-stamp:
 	dh_testdir
 	$(MAKE)	
@@ -118,6 +120,12 @@
 		 `pwd`/debian/dieharder/usr/include/dieharder	\
 		 `pwd`/debian/dieharder/usr/include/
 
+        # edd 03 Jun 2011
+        # empty dependency_lib in .la files (cf #621199)	
+	find debian/dieharder/ -name \*.la | \
+		xargs perl -p -i -e "s/dependency_libs='.*'/dependency_libs=''/" 
+
+
 # This single target is used to build all the packages, all at once, or
 # one at a time. So keep in mind: any options passed to commands here will
 # affect _all_ packages. Anything you want to only affect one package