diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ebd318b..78c0b12 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ lzlib (0.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
 lzlib (0.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * Adding explicit debian source version 1.0 until switch to 3.0.
+  * Adding explicit source version 1.0 until switch to 3.0.
   * Updating year in copyright file.
   * Merging upstream version 0.8.
   * Updating year in copyright file.
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 45a4fb7..ec63514 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-8
+9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0e60e82..b1fcf7a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@ Source: lzlib
 Section: libs
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), texinfo
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), texinfo
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
 Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html
 
 Package: liblz1
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
+Pre-Depends: ${multiarch:Pre-Depends}
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Description: data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (library)
  The lzlib compression library provides in-memory LZMA compression and
diff --git a/debian/liblz-dev.install b/debian/liblz-dev.install
index 35739da..3873b2b 100644
--- a/debian/liblz-dev.install
+++ b/debian/liblz-dev.install
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/usr/include
-/usr/lib/*.a
-/usr/lib/*.so
-/usr/share/info
+usr/include
+usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/*.a
+usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/*.so
+usr/share/info
diff --git a/debian/liblz-dev.install.in b/debian/liblz-dev.install.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7bb199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/liblz-dev.install.in
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+usr/include
+usr/lib/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/*.a
+usr/lib/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/*.so
+usr/share/info
diff --git a/debian/liblz1.install b/debian/liblz1.install
index 49cc562..2b7a24e 100644
--- a/debian/liblz1.install
+++ b/debian/liblz1.install
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/usr/lib/*.so.*
+usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/*.so.*
diff --git a/debian/liblz1.install.in b/debian/liblz1.install.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d0a62e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/liblz1.install.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr/lib/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/*.so.*
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index dd9624c..80c7431 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,16 +1,34 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
+SHELL := sh -e
+
+DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
+
 %:
 	dh ${@}
 
+override_dh_auto_clean:
+	dh_auto_clean
+
+	for _FILE in debian/*.install.in; \
+	do \
+		rm -f debian/$$(basename $${_FILE} .in); \
+		sed -e 's|@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@|$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)|g' \
+		$${_FILE} > debian/$$(basename $${_FILE} .in); \
+	done
+
 override_dh_auto_configure:
-	dh_auto_configure -- --enable-shared --libdir=\$${prefix}/lib
+	dh_auto_configure -- --enable-shared --libdir=\$${prefix}/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
 
 override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install -- LDCONFIG=/bin/true
 
 	# adding missing symlink
+ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH),)
 	ln -s liblz.so.1.1 debian/tmp/usr/lib/liblz.so
+else
+	ln -s liblz.so.1.1 debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/liblz.so
+endif
 
 	# removing unused files
 	rm -f debian/tmp/usr/share/info/dir*
@@ -18,6 +36,13 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
 override_dh_builddeb:
 	dh_builddeb -- -Zgzip -z9
 
+override_dh_gencontrol:
+ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH),)
+	dh_gencontrol
+else
+	dh_gencontrol -- -Vmultiarch:Pre-Depends="multiarch-support"
+endif
+
 override_dh_install:
 	dh_install --fail-missing