diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 3fcaccb869..a1a5b40221 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -25,4 +25,9 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
 override_dh_fixperms:
 	dh_fixperms -Xld-linux
 
+# Do not add "ldconfig" trigger since of no need, and activate-noawait might not
+# be known to elderly distributions (e.g. squeeze)
+override_dh_makeshlibs:
+	dh_makeshlibs --noscripts
+
 endif