diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8405cf2bd..0079f32ca 100644
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,6 +3,16 @@
 %: 
 	+dh $@
 
+#dh_shlibdeps has a problem finding which package some of the Haskell
+#libraries come from, even though dpkg-query -S has no problem finding them.
+#But the gf executable is statically linked against the Haskell libraries, so
+#it will work even if these shared libraries aren't installed. But there will
+#be a problem if other shared libraries are missing (.e.g. libtinfo, libgmp),
+#so we need a better solution than simply ignoring all dependency problems...
+#See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11238134/dpkg-shlibdeps-error-no-dependency-information-found-for
+override_dh_shlibdeps:
+	dh_shlibdeps --dpkg-shlibdeps-params=--ignore-missing-info
+
 override_dh_auto_build:
 	cd src/runtime/python && EXTRA_INCLUDE_DIRS=$(CURDIR)/src/runtime/c EXTRA_LIB_DIRS=$(CURDIR)/src/runtime/c/.libs python setup.py build
 	echo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$(CURDIR)/src/runtime/c/.libs