diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4f376d20b..218f71738 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Misc:
  - Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
  - All: Add --help flag for command line programs
  - Qt: Show version info in window title
+ - All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
 
 0.2.1: (2015-05-13)
 Bugfixes:
diff --git a/tools/sanitize-deb.sh b/tools/sanitize-deb.sh
index af7c3b72b..e1c523fb8 100755
--- a/tools/sanitize-deb.sh
+++ b/tools/sanitize-deb.sh
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
     sed -i~ "s/,$//g" deb-temp/DEBIAN/control
     sed -i~ "/^[^:]*: $/d" deb-temp/DEBIAN/control
     rm deb-temp/DEBIAN/control~
+    chown -R 0:0 deb-temp
+    chmod 600 deb-temp/DEBIAN/md5sums
     dpkg-deb -b deb-temp $DEB
     rm -rf deb-temp
     shift