diff -x '*~' -x .svn -Naur trunk/debian/control trunk.backports/debian/control
--- trunk/debian/control	2006-10-23 00:57:02.000000000 -0400
+++ trunk.backports/debian/control	2006-12-04 08:45:25.000000000 -0500
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
 Maintainer: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
 Uploaders: Barak Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), dpatch
-Build-Depends-Indep: python, python-dev, help2man, python-central (>= 0.5.6)
+Build-Depends-Indep: python, python2.4, python2.4-dev, help2man
 XS-Python-Version: current, >= 2.4
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
 Package: fail2ban
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${python:Depends}, iptables, lsb-base (>=2.0-7)
+Depends: python2.4, iptables, lsb-base (>=2.0-7)
 Suggests: python-gamin
 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Description: bans IPs that cause multiple authentication errors
diff -x '*~' -x .svn -Naur trunk/debian/rules trunk.backports/debian/rules
--- trunk/debian/rules	2006-11-11 21:19:14.000000000 -0500
+++ trunk.backports/debian/rules	2006-12-04 08:45:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 	dh_installdirs
 
 	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/fail2ban.
-	python setup.py install --root=$(DESTDIR) --no-compile
+	python2.4 setup.py install --root=$(DESTDIR) --no-compile
 	#X Evil - must be removed after Debian switches over to 2.4, now
 	#  distutils.setup will override the enterpreter line to /usr/bin/python
 	install fail2ban-server fail2ban-client $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 	dh_installlogrotate
 	dh_installinit -- defaults 99
 	dh_installman man/*.1
-	dh_pycentral
+	dh_python
 	dh_link
 	dh_compress
 	dh_fixperms