diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c40bd8494..6ea77c64f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -70,7 +70,12 @@ linux-2.6 (2.6.31~rc6-1~experimental.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Fix Linus' name in copyright file (Closes: #530620)
   * More verbose explanation on difference between Alpha flavour
     (Closes: #497230)
-
+  * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser stanzas pointing to the SVN branch
+    used for development in unstable. There are other branches
+    used for experimental (trunk), oldstable and stable, but Vcs-*
+    doesn't yet provide the ability to distinguish branches in a
+    more fine-grained manner. (Closes: #471495)
+	
   [ dann frazier ]
   * n_tty: Fix echo race
   * [ia64] Stop disabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, which was blocking
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index d207b1a73..99ea22509 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ Uploaders: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Frederik Schüler <fs@debian.org>,
 Standards-Version: 3.8.2
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), cpio, module-init-tools, python
 Build-Depends-Indep: bzip2, python-central, xmlto
+Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6/
+Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6/?op=log
 XS-Python-Version: current