diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 45a4fb7..7f8f011 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8
+7
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e60cf5f..4f7b3cd 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Source: sciteco
 Section: editors
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.4), g++ (>= 4:4.4), libglib2.0-dev, libncurses5-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.4), g++ (>= 4:4.4),
+ libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.28), ncurses-base, ncurses-term, libncurses5-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
 Homepage: http://sciteco.sf.net/
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 84c4bc6..c8bea8d 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
+# NOTE: Unsetting $TERM is necessary since the
+# PPA build servers have a broken curses setup.
+# They have $TERM set but do not include the corresponding
+# terminal definitions.
+# This lets SciTECO choose a reasonable default
+# and we've also added some terminal definitions to the
+# build dependencies.
+export TERM=
+
 %:
 	dh $@