diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b96d017b795ea77cb8ffc0a0a6fb4eecd6a9cda1..637aa9789b877e8f35f686a1f8ef03b2c31630a2 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Section: mail
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Mailman for Debian <pkg-mailman-hackers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>,
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), autoconf, python-dev,
- gettext, python-dnspython, dh-python
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), autoconf, python-dev,
+ gettext, python-dnspython, dh-python, dh-systemd
 Standards-Version: 4.1.4
 Homepage: http://www.list.org/
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/mailman-team/mailman2.git
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 436bf654b56d9a1eda857a66140ceb58c1894ee0..3e27bae630e7e4126f1e2ac5ceeb8a00f963d4a2 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ binary-arch:	build
 		do dh_link usr/lib/$(package)/bin/$$bin usr/sbin/$$bin; done
 	mv debian/mailman/usr/sbin/arch debian/mailman/usr/sbin/mmarch
 	dh_installman
-	dh_installsystemd
+	dh_systemd_enable
+	dh_systemd_start
 	dh_installdebconf
 	dh_installexamples templates/* debian/mm_cfg.py \
 		debian/mailman/usr/lib/$(package)/Mailman/Defaults.py