diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2f6d9f600f631408cb3ca1c9530bbc53c2e15da5..7ce62816574a5254cde8eb0c6331abbe6a07efd2 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Package: libgg-aix-pm-perl
-Version: 0.8-1
+Version: 0.9-1
 Architecture: all
 Maintainer: Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com>
 Original-Maintainer: Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com>
 Installed-Size: 629
-Depends: perl, libjson-perl, libjson-xs-perl, libfile-slurper-perl
+Depends: perl, libjson-perl, libjson-xs-perl, libfile-slurper-perl, libdatetime-perl
 Section: perl
 Priority: optional
 Homepage: http://aix-pm.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/scripts/debian/control b/scripts/debian/control
index c0df9975f312d2d55517e00be93e85af0e8943f1..a5a285b6a3e9ad2903683677c70afb4893bf73fa 100644
--- a/scripts/debian/control
+++ b/scripts/debian/control
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: gg-aix-pm-scripts
-Version: 0.6-1
+Version: 0.7-1
 Architecture: all
 Maintainer: Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com>
 Original-Maintainer: Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com>
diff --git a/scripts/mkdeb.pl b/scripts/mkdeb.pl
index 4bb24d7154a1404b307bf88cde5835b52b89a492..b06b7c962f3bdb30c46c4725470f8ea43396c97b 100755
--- a/scripts/mkdeb.pl
+++ b/scripts/mkdeb.pl
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ while (my $arg= shift (@ARGV))
     my ($opt, $val)= split('=', $1);
        if ($opt eq 'arch') { $pkg_arch= $val || shift(@ARGV); }
     elsif ($opt eq 'compress-suffix') { $compress_suffix= $val || shift(@ARGV); }
+    elsif ($opt =~ m#^(gz|xz|zst)$#) { $compress_suffix= $opt; }
     else { usage(); }
   }
   elsif ($arg =~ /^-/)
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ sub mk_package
   my $data_compressed;
   if ($compress_suffix eq 'zst')
   {
-    cmd(qw(xz -z control.tar data.tar));
+    cmd(qw(zstd -z control.tar data.tar));
     $control_compressed= 'control.tar.zst';
     $data_compressed= 'data.tar.zst';
   }