diff --git a/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemopackagecreationstep.cpp b/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemopackagecreationstep.cpp
index cb99af65b334cfccdffeedc8ea98f965479d8cf8..7f0301e2c9c9a07b48e3eba49a28f823a778568e 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemopackagecreationstep.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemopackagecreationstep.cpp
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ bool MaemoPackageCreationStep::createPackage()
 
         QByteArray rulesContents = rulesFile.readAll();
         rulesContents.replace("DESTDIR", "INSTALL_ROOT");
+        rulesContents.replace("dh_shlibdeps", "# dh_shlibdeps");
 
         // Would be the right solution, but does not work (on Windows),
         // because dpkg-genchanges doesn't know about it (and can't be told).