diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index fcf1444..8c433cc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -93,4 +93,5 @@
 - Font is set only on windows (Rev 206)
 - Improved futile_union_intersection_subtraction in case of A-A, when A is a sub-query (Rev 208)
 - Improved futile_union_intersection_subtraction, handles when a branch of subtracion has a selection (Rev 209)
-- Can load relations specified in command line (Rev 210)
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+- Can load relations specified in command line (Rev 210)
+- Using fakeroot instead of su in make debian (Rev 214)
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 71d1436..63b4ef8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ debian:
 	cp debscript/prerm data/DEBIAN/prerm
 	cp debscript/postinst data/DEBIAN/postinst
 	chmod 0755 data/DEBIAN/prerm data/DEBIAN/postinst
-	su -c "chown -R root:root data/*; dpkg -b data/ relational.deb; rm -rf data/"
+	fakeroot -- chown -R root:root data/*
+	fakeroot -- dpkg -b data/ relational.deb
+	fakeroot -- rm -rf data/
 	cp relational.deb relational_`./relational_gui.py -v`+SVN`svn update | cut -d" " -f3 | tr -d "."`.deb
 	rm -f relational.deb