diff --git a/meta/packages/distcc/distcc_2.18.3.bb b/meta/packages/distcc/distcc_2.18.3.bb
index f592997d9f..cce2812b7c 100644
--- a/meta/packages/distcc/distcc_2.18.3.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/distcc/distcc_2.18.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "distcc is a parallel build system that distributes \
 compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network."
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
-PR = "r4"
+PR = "r5"
 
 DEPENDS = "avahi gtk+"
 RRECOMMENDS = "avahi-daemon"
diff --git a/meta/packages/distcc/files/distcc b/meta/packages/distcc/files/distcc
index bbd4707497..513bc483ea 100755
--- a/meta/packages/distcc/files/distcc
+++ b/meta/packages/distcc/files/distcc
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          distcc
+# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
+# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
+# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      1
+# Short-Description: simple distributed compiler client and server
+### END INIT INFO
 #
 # distccd Debian init.d script contributed by Jason Thomas.  (Debian #161136)
 #