diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c0496fc..745cab3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+dvdisaster (0.79.5-9) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Make sure that the upstream changelog remains uncompressed so
+    that the application can display it.
+
+ -- Carlos Maddela <e7appew@gmail.com>  Sat, 02 Feb 2019 13:32:34 +1100
+
 dvdisaster (0.79.5-8) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Fix parallel build of locale strings.
diff --git a/debian/dvdisaster.docs b/debian/dvdisaster.docs
index 0be57d0..3505337 100644
--- a/debian/dvdisaster.docs
+++ b/debian/dvdisaster.docs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-CHANGELOG
 CREDITS.*
 README.MODIFYING
 TODO
diff --git a/debian/dvdisaster.lintian-overrides b/debian/dvdisaster.lintian-overrides
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a58a86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dvdisaster.lintian-overrides
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dvdisaster: changelog-file-not-compressed changelog
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 40e13a9..c36648b 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -68,4 +68,8 @@ override_dh_auto_install-indep:
 # automatically decompress text files.
 override_dh_compress-arch:
 	dh_compress -p dvdisaster \
-		-XCHANGELOG -XCREDITS -XREADME.MODIFYING -XTODO
+		-Xchangelog -XCREDITS -XREADME.MODIFYING -XTODO
+	gzip -9n debian/dvdisaster/usr/share/doc/dvdisaster/changelog.Debian
+
+override_dh_installchangelogs-arch:
+	dh_installchangelogs -p dvdisaster -k