diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 87269e03..ecd7b6ac 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ libgtop2 (2.28.5-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.
   * Remove those kfreebsd patches which have been merged upstream.
+  * Drop 99_ltmain_as-needed.patch and use dh_autoreconf --as-needed instead.
 
  -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Sep 2013 02:37:50 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/99_ltmain_as-needed.patch b/debian/patches/99_ltmain_as-needed.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 705870c9..00000000
--- a/debian/patches/99_ltmain_as-needed.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-Index: libgtop2/ltmain.sh
-===================================================================
---- libgtop2.orig/ltmain.sh	2011-08-30 13:25:39.000000000 +0200
-+++ libgtop2/ltmain.sh	2011-09-06 14:12:45.695875002 +0200
-@@ -5787,6 +5787,11 @@
- 	arg=$func_stripname_result
- 	;;
- 
-+      -Wl,--as-needed)
-+	deplibs="$deplibs $arg"
-+	continue
-+	;;
-+
-       -Wl,*)
- 	func_stripname '-Wl,' '' "$arg"
- 	args=$func_stripname_result
-@@ -6150,6 +6155,15 @@
- 	lib=
- 	found=no
- 	case $deplib in
-+	-Wl,--as-needed)
-+	  if test "$linkmode,$pass" = "prog,link"; then
-+	    compile_deplibs="$deplib $compile_deplibs"
-+	    finalize_deplibs="$deplib $finalize_deplibs"
-+	  else
-+	    deplibs="$deplib $deplibs"
-+	  fi
-+	  continue
-+	  ;;
- 	-mt|-mthreads|-kthread|-Kthread|-pthread|-pthreads|--thread-safe|-threads)
- 	  if test "$linkmode,$pass" = "prog,link"; then
- 	    compile_deplibs="$deplib $compile_deplibs"
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 7a4bee1d..a9baa102 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 02_hurd_stub_backend.patch
 03_kfreebsd_installdirs.patch
 06_kfreebsd_sys_pipe.patch
-99_ltmain_as-needed.patch
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index f80e878a..a7024411 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ GNOME_MODULE := libgtop
 SHARED_PKG := libgtop2-7
 
 LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
+
+DEB_DH_AUTORECONF_ARGS = --as-needed
+
 DEB_DH_MAKESHLIBS_ARGS_ALL += -V '$(SHARED_PKG) (>= 2.24.0)'
 
 DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --libexecdir=/usr/lib/$(SHARED_PKG)