diff --git a/cabal-debian.cabal b/cabal-debian.cabal
--- a/cabal-debian.cabal
+++ b/cabal-debian.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:           cabal-debian
-Version:        4.38
+Version:        4.38.1
 Copyright:      Copyright (c) 2007-2014, David Fox, Jeremy Shaw
 License:        BSD3
 License-File:   LICENSE
diff --git a/src/Debian/Debianize/BuildDependencies.hs b/src/Debian/Debianize/BuildDependencies.hs
--- a/src/Debian/Debianize/BuildDependencies.hs
+++ b/src/Debian/Debianize/BuildDependencies.hs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import Data.List as List (filter, groupBy, intercalate, map, minimumBy, nub, sortBy)
 import Data.Map as Map (lookup, Map)
 import Data.Maybe (catMaybes, fromMaybe, isJust, isNothing, listToMaybe, mapMaybe)
+import Data.Monoid ((<>))
 import Data.Set as Set (empty, fold, fromList, map, member, Set, singleton, toList, union)
 import Debian.Debianize.Prelude
 import Debian.Debianize.BasicInfo (buildEnv, compilerFlavor, EnvSet(dependOS))
@@ -122,6 +123,14 @@
 debianBuildDeps :: (MonadIO m, Functor m) => PackageDescription -> CabalT m D.Relations
 debianBuildDeps pkgDesc =
     do hflavor <- use (A.debInfo . D.flags . compilerFlavor)
+       prof <- not <$> use (A.debInfo . D.noProfilingLibrary)
+       let hcPackageTypes :: CompilerFlavor -> Set B.PackageType
+           hcPackageTypes GHC = fromList ([B.Development] <> if prof then [B.Profiling] else [])
+#if MIN_VERSION_Cabal(1,22,0)
+           hcPackageTypes GHCJS = fromList [B.Development]
+#endif
+           hcPackageTypes hc = error $ "Unsupported compiler flavor: " ++ show hc
+
        let hcs = singleton hflavor -- vestigial
        let hcTypePairs =
                fold union empty $
@@ -145,7 +154,6 @@
             ]
 
        bDeps <- use (A.debInfo . D.control . S.buildDepends)
-       prof <- not <$> use (A.debInfo . D.noProfilingLibrary)
        official <- use (A.debInfo . D.official)
        compat <- use (A.debInfo . D.compat)
        let ghcdev = compilerPackageName hflavor B.Development
@@ -166,13 +174,6 @@
                        cDeps
        filterMissing xs
     where
-      hcPackageTypes :: CompilerFlavor -> Set B.PackageType
-      hcPackageTypes GHC = fromList [B.Development, B.Profiling]
-#if MIN_VERSION_Cabal(1,22,0)
-      hcPackageTypes GHCJS = fromList [B.Development]
-#endif
-      hcPackageTypes hc = error $ "Unsupported compiler flavor: " ++ show hc
-
       -- No point in installing profiling packages for the
       -- dependencies of binaries and test suites.  (I take it back,
       -- some executable builds fail if the profiling library isn't
diff --git a/src/Debian/Debianize/Details.hs b/src/Debian/Debianize/Details.hs
--- a/src/Debian/Debianize/Details.hs
+++ b/src/Debian/Debianize/Details.hs
@@ -41,10 +41,13 @@
        mapM_ (\name -> (A.debInfo . D.execMap) %= Map.insert name [[Rel (BinPkgName name) Nothing Nothing]])
             ["ghc", "happy", "alex", "hsx2hs"]
        -- The parsec debs are suffixed with either "2" or "3"
+#if !MIN_VERSION_base(4,11,1)
+-- The deb of ghc-8.4.3 changes the libghc-parsec3-dev name to libghc-parsec-deb
 #if MIN_VERSION_Cabal(2,0,0)
        mapCabal (mkPackageName "parsec") (DebBase "parsec3")
 #else
        mapCabal (PackageName "parsec") (DebBase "parsec3")
+#endif
 #endif
        -- Similar split for quickcheck
 #if MIN_VERSION_Cabal(2,0,0)
diff --git a/src/Debian/Debianize/ExecAtoms.hs b/src/Debian/Debianize/ExecAtoms.hs
--- a/src/Debian/Debianize/ExecAtoms.hs
+++ b/src/Debian/Debianize/ExecAtoms.hs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 -- | Things that seem like they could be clients of this library, but
 -- are instead included as part of the library.
 {-# LANGUAGE CPP, FlexibleContexts, OverloadedStrings #-}
-{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -ddump-minimal-imports #-}
+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind #-}
 module Debian.Debianize.ExecAtoms
     ( execAtoms
     ) where
diff --git a/src/Debian/Debianize/Goodies.hs b/src/Debian/Debianize/Goodies.hs
--- a/src/Debian/Debianize/Goodies.hs
+++ b/src/Debian/Debianize/Goodies.hs
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-unused-do-bind #-}
 module Debian.Debianize.Goodies
     ( tightDependencyFixup
-    , expandWebsite, doServer
-    , expandServer, doWebsite
+    , expandWebsite, doWebsite
+    , expandServer, doServer
     , expandBackups, doBackups
     , doExecutable
     , oldClckwrksSiteFlags
diff --git a/src/Debian/Debianize/InputCabal.hs b/src/Debian/Debianize/InputCabal.hs
--- a/src/Debian/Debianize/InputCabal.hs
+++ b/src/Debian/Debianize/InputCabal.hs
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 import Distribution.Package (Package(packageId))
 import Distribution.PackageDescription as Cabal (PackageDescription)
 import Distribution.PackageDescription.Configuration (finalizePackageDescription)
-import Distribution.PackageDescription.Parse (readPackageDescription)
+import Distribution.PackageDescription.Parse (readGenericPackageDescription)
 import Distribution.Simple.Utils (defaultPackageDesc, die, setupMessage)
 import Distribution.System as Cabal (buildArch, Platform(..))
 import qualified Distribution.System as Cabal (buildOS)
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
         -- Load a GenericPackageDescription from the current directory
         -- and from that create a finalized PackageDescription for the
         -- given CompilerId.
-        genPkgDesc <- liftIO $ defaultPackageDesc vb >>= readPackageDescription vb
+        genPkgDesc <- liftIO $ defaultPackageDesc vb >>= readGenericPackageDescription vb
         let finalized = finalizePackageDescription (toList fs) (const True) (Platform buildArch Cabal.buildOS) cinfo [] genPkgDesc
         ePkgDesc <- either (return . Left)
                            (\ (pkgDesc, _) -> do liftIO $ bracket (setFileCreationMask 0o022) setFileCreationMask $ \ _ -> autoreconf vb pkgDesc
diff --git a/src/Debian/Debianize/Optparse.hs b/src/Debian/Debianize/Optparse.hs
--- a/src/Debian/Debianize/Optparse.hs
+++ b/src/Debian/Debianize/Optparse.hs
@@ -499,7 +499,10 @@
 profilingP = O.flag ProfilingEnabled ProfilingDisabled m where
   m = O.help helpMsg
       <> O.long "disable-profiling"
-  helpMsg = "Do not generate profiling (-prof) library package."
+  helpMsg = unlines [
+    "Do not generate profiling (-prof) library package, do not",
+    "add -prof packages to the build dependency list."
+     ]
 
 haddockP :: O.Parser [HaddockStatus]
 haddockP = (: []) <$> (O.flag HaddockEnabled HaddockDisabled m) where