diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 64db8f691998fb3204524e148fe286a8a61ba710..e9243e53fa38c17772bcfc67510967c7e0921edf 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ linuxdoc-tools (0.9.51) unstable; urgency=low
     - (process_options): When checking for an explicit backend option,
       do not shift in the while condition itself, 0 in options like
       '-s 0' will otherwise stop looping (Closes: #486965).
+  * debian/control:
+    - Bump standards version to 3.8.0. No changes required.
 
- -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:38:07 +0200
+ -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:45:57 +0200
 
 linuxdoc-tools (0.9.50) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4a6f0516a5bd23adbe89e107fc3b315f8913c02f..ad6cbdb87572e44b6bd67c7e14cae5ae60f5e7c8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Section: text
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.3
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/users/agmartin/linuxdoc-tools.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/agmartin/linuxdoc-tools.git;a=summary
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>=4 ), perl, flex, gawk|mawk, sp|opensp, texinfo, groff (>= 1.15.3.1),
  texlive-base-bin, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 
 Package: linuxdoc-tools
 Architecture: any