--- debian/rules.old	2021-12-14 10:51:09.641165521 -0800
+++ debian/rules	2021-12-14 10:52:36.494048522 -0800
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@
 # upsteram maintains config.h.in manually
 export AUTOHEADER = true
 
-override_dh_auto_configure:
-	dh_auto_configure -- --disable-readline
-
 override_dh_auto_test:
 ifneq (, filter $(DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS), kfreebsd hurd)
 	dh_auto_test
@@ -24,4 +21,4 @@
 %:
 	dh $@ --with=autoreconf
 
-.PHONY: override_dh_auto_configure override_dh_auto_test
+.PHONY: override_dh_auto_test
--- debian/control.old	2021-12-14 11:30:49.166051931 -0800
+++ debian/control	2021-12-14 11:30:57.590153464 -0800
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
 Homepage: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libssl-dev, libwrap0-dev, openssl <!nocheck>, net-tools <!nocheck>, iproute2 [linux-any] <!nocheck>, netbase <!nocheck>
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libssl-dev, libwrap0-dev, libreadline-dev, openssl <!nocheck>, net-tools <!nocheck>, iproute2 [linux-any] <!nocheck>, netbase <!nocheck>
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1
 Rules-Requires-Root: no