diff -u vips-7.18.1/debian/rules vips-7.18.1/debian/rules
--- vips-7.18.1/debian/rules
+++ vips-7.18.1/debian/rules
@@ -25,11 +25,18 @@
 	$(DEB_BUILDDIR)/doc/html
 DEB_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE = html
 
+DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_LIBTOOL = pre
+DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOMAKE = 1.10
+DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_ACLOCAL = $(DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOMAKE)
+DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOCONF = 2.63
+
 # Include cdbs rules files.
 #include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
 
+DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS = --exec_prefix=/usr
+
 # "make install" runs installed programs at one point, so we need to
 # set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the installed library directory.
 ifeq ("$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH)", "")
@@ -53,8 +60,8 @@
 install/libvips-tools::
 	rm debian/tmp/usr/bin/header
 	rm debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/header.1*
-	rm debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/site-packages/vipsCC/*.pyc
-	rm debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/site-packages/vipsCC/*.pyo
+	rm debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/*-packages/vipsCC/*.pyc
+	rm debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/*-packages/vipsCC/*.pyo
 	perl $(l_PWD)/debian/scripts/create_missing_manual_pages
 
 # Install lintian override files
diff -u vips-7.18.1/debian/control vips-7.18.1/debian/control
--- vips-7.18.1/debian/control
+++ vips-7.18.1/debian/control
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 Source: vips
 Section: libs
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 5.0.38), libjpeg62-dev, libtiff4-dev, zlib1g-dev, fftw3-dev | libfftw3-dev, liblcms1-dev, libpng12-dev, libmagick9-dev | libmagick-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libfontconfig1-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libice-dev, gettext, pkg-config, libxml-parser-perl, libexif-gtk-dev, python-dev (>= 2.4), python-central (>= 0.5.6), liboil0.3-dev, libopenexr-dev, libmatio-dev, flex, bison
-Maintainer: Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
+Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 5.0.38), libjpeg62-dev, libtiff4-dev, zlib1g-dev, fftw3-dev | libfftw3-dev, liblcms1-dev, libpng12-dev, libmagick9-dev | libmagick-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libfontconfig1-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libice-dev, gettext, pkg-config, libxml-parser-perl, libexif-gtk-dev, python-dev (>= 2.4), python-central (>= 0.5.6), liboil0.3-dev, libopenexr-dev, libmatio-dev, flex, bison, libtool
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>
 XS-Python-Version: current
 Standards-Version: 3.8.1
 Homepage: http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk
diff -u vips-7.18.1/debian/changelog vips-7.18.1/debian/changelog
--- vips-7.18.1/debian/changelog
+++ vips-7.18.1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+vips (7.18.1-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/rules: 
+    - changes site-packages to *-packages (LP: #401941)
+    - added DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_LIBTOOL, *-AUTOMAKE, *-ACLOCAL and *-AUTOCONF to 
+      update configure file and makefiles
+    - Set DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS to --exec_prefix=/usr to force configure
+      to set correctly python extension module directory
+  * debian/control: added build dependency on libtool
+
+ -- Fabrice Coutadeur <fabricesp@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:23:41 +0000
+
 vips (7.18.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release