diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 3fb8c533426c80c414af074fda41ceb7388b75c1..96238b1e567fd13b39536f50d32e85093b2d8ac3 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
+AC_PREREQ(2.50)
+
 AC_INIT(src/audio_out.c)
 
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libao,0.8.0)
diff --git a/debian/Makefile.am b/debian/Makefile.am
index a74fdb453d043c1ef330a7c71813cf36103e2e84..18b03f24934d0c0f36471e68749b9af3da42fc92 100644
--- a/debian/Makefile.am
+++ b/debian/Makefile.am
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
 
 EXTRA_DIST = README.Debian changelog control copyright libao-dev.dirs\
-	libao-dev.docs libao-dev.files libao0.dirs libao0.files \
-	libao0.manpages libao0.override rules
+	libao-dev.docs libao-dev.files libao2.dirs libao2.files \
+	libao2.manpages rules
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8cd74493141b9b56f774898b98ce9c7dcaf873d9..e9f47430d2f23cae79812643ee9d12696d3a8e75 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 libao (0.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream.
+  * soname changed to 2.
 
  -- Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:00:00 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index cae90f8dc86b85141ca31e8a6f947ec93b44eaa3..0a5d7d184b5055eb9d979620a63bfe17cd770890 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ Standards-Version: 3.5.6.0
 Package: libao-dev
 Architecture: any
 Section: devel
-Depends: libao0 (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev
+Depends: libao2 (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev
 Description: Cross Platform Audio Output Library Development
  The libao-devel package contains the header files and documentation
  needed to develop applications with libao.
 
-Package: libao0
+Package: libao2
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index de5d9cafd693cc5d22f1a30a115089d3d51f7f43..320eb0b925a30c67ae5024f2ed821e16771815b3 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -44,9 +44,7 @@ install: build
 	dh_installdirs
 
 	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp.
-	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp
-	install -d $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/lintian/overrides
-	install -m 644 debian/libao0.override $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libao0
+	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
 
 # Build architecture-independent files here.
 binary-indep: build install
@@ -56,8 +54,8 @@ binary-indep: build install
 binary-arch: build install
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
-
 	dh_movefiles
+
 	dh_installdocs
 	dh_installexamples
 	dh_installman