diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d10f78366..de39e67a6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ linux (4.2.3-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * ipc: Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid()
     (CVE-2015-7613)
 
+  [ Ian Campbell ]
+  * [armel] Update breaks on flash-kernel to anything earlier than 3.37 since
+    that version adds the knowledge that various additional kirkwood systems
+    need a DTB appending as of v3.17-rc1. (Closes: #797878)
+
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:14:59 +0100
 
 linux (4.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
diff --git a/debian/config/armel/defines b/debian/config/armel/defines
index 29a2fc0e0..043a4b4a2 100644
--- a/debian/config/armel/defines
+++ b/debian/config/armel/defines
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ recommends: u-boot-tools
 # QNAP TS-119/TS-219: 2097152 - 8 - 64 = 2097080
 check-size: 2097080
 check-size-with-dtb: true
-breaks: flash-kernel (<< 3.30~)
+breaks: flash-kernel (<< 3.37~)
 configs:
  armel/config-reduced
  armel/config.kirkwood