diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cf43e05d6..e047d4427 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ linux (4.6.1-1~exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - mm: perform lru_add_drain_all() remotely
   * debian/control: Drop obsolete versioned Depends and Breaks
   * linux-libc-dev: Drop obsolete Replaces/Conflicts with linux-kernel-headers
+  * debian/control: Update policy version to 3.9.8; no changes required
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Sat, 04 Jun 2016 18:33:11 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index ca43f0306..392e06219 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: kernel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-Standards-Version: 3.9.5
+Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Build-Depends:
  debhelper,
 # used to run debian/bin/*.py