diff --git a/debian/arch/alpha/defines b/debian/arch/alpha/defines
index 7e8d3ed14..ac26d40df 100644
--- a/debian/arch/alpha/defines
+++ b/debian/arch/alpha/defines
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 [base]
-compiler: gcc-3.3
 flavours: alpha-generic alpha-smp
 suggests: aboot, fdutils
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e92014ffb..e34067737 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 linux-2.6 (2.6.14-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
-   [ Norbert Tretkowski ]
-   * Switch to gcc 4.0.
-     N.B: This was moved from 2.6.14-2 to 2.6.14-3 as 2.6.14-2 had
-     already been built and uploaded. Norbert, can you remove this
-     note once you've read it. Sorry of that means -2 breaks on alpha.
-     We'll get -3 out soon -- Simon Horman
- 
- -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org>  Tue,  1 Nov 2005 19:18:29 +0900
+  [ Norbert Tretkowski ]
+  * [alpha] Switch to gcc 4.0.
+
+ -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org>  Tue,  1 Nov 2005 21:46:26 +0100
 
 linux-2.6 (2.6.14-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
@@ -31,7 +27,6 @@ linux-2.6 (2.6.14-2) unstable; urgency=low
     non-SMP case.
   * [alpha] Added kernel-header-dirs and kernel-arch to debian/arch/alpha/defines
     to include asm-alpha in linux-headers package.
-  * [alpha] Switch to gcc 4.0.
   * Added myself to Uploaders.
 
   [ Frederik Schüler ]
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index c298b2e0b..462a673d0 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Simon Horman <horms@debian.org>, Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>, Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
-Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.0) [!sparc !alpha !m68k], gcc-3.3 [sparc alpha m68k], binutils-hppa64 [hppa], gcc-4.0-hppa64 [hppa], debhelper (>= 4.1.0), module-init-tools, dpkg-dev (>= 1.10.23), debianutils (>= 1.6), bzip2, sparc-utils [sparc], kernel-package (>= 9.008.3)
+Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.0) [!sparc !m68k], gcc-3.3 [sparc m68k], binutils-hppa64 [hppa], gcc-4.0-hppa64 [hppa], debhelper (>= 4.1.0), module-init-tools, dpkg-dev (>= 1.10.23), debianutils (>= 1.6), bzip2, sparc-utils [sparc], kernel-package (>= 9.008.3)
 Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-utils, gs, transfig, xmlto, dh-kpatches (>= 0.99.3)