diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 49ca4f5f45..5169af3b77 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ gtk+2.0 (2.10.11-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     its logic; build-dep on gnome-pkg-tools >= 0.11.
   * Run "make check" test suite for all flavors except if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
     contains the "nocheck" keyword; ignore failures.
+  * Add support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL.
 
- -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>  Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:10:18 +0200
+ -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>  Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:12:49 +0200
 
 gtk+2.0 (2.10.11-1) experimental; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b264a7e6cc..5b98eeabc4 100644
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ STAMP_DIR := debian/stampdir
 
 PATCH_DIR := debian/patches
 
+# rules in this debian/rules Makefile can be built concurrently as well as
+# upstream rules in Makefile; all $(MAKE) invocations will inherit this flag,
+# if you recurse into debian/rules ($(MAKE)
+# -f debian/rules in rules), you need to pass a flag to avoid adding "-j2" when
+# the childs encounters this line
+MAKEFLAGS += $(if $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL),-j2 $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL))
+
 # These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
 # from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
 DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)