diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2301ca185..ca487eebb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 - the event/task summary dialog is now similar to Lightning
 - replaced GNUstep's DO subsystem with memcached
 - added functional tests for DAV operations
+- added the necessary files to build Debian packages
 
 1.0-20090714 (1.0.3)
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