diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b10108fc2..f05967a2f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ linux-2.6 (2.6.38~rc7-1~experimental.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * [x86] Enable VT6656, loading firmware from a separate file (requires
     firmware-linux-nonfree 0.29) (Closes: #568454)
   * perf: Build with libdwarf for improved analysis capabilities
+  * perf: Build with newt for improved user interface (Closes: #615868)
 
  -- maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>  Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:00:38 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index 22f390f2e..4f0b0d8b4 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Frederik Schüler <fs@debian.org>, maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), cpio, module-init-tools, python, lzma [armel], libelf-dev, libdw-dev, binutils-dev, asciidoc, xmlto, libperl-dev, python-dev, python-support
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), cpio, module-init-tools, python, lzma [armel], libelf-dev, libdw-dev, binutils-dev, asciidoc, xmlto, libperl-dev, python-dev, libnewt-dev, python-support
 Build-Depends-Indep: bzip2
 Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6/
 Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6/?op=log