diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9b8d5ca49..1cd5ccb27 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel (2 January 2007)
+- Modified libcurl.pc.in to use Libs.private for the libs libcurl itself needs
+  to get built static. It has been mentioned before and was again brought to
+  our attention by Nathanael Nerode who filed debian bug report #405226
+  (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405226).
+
 Daniel (29 December 2006)
 - Make curl_easy_duphandle() set the magic number in the new handle.
 
diff --git a/libcurl.pc.in b/libcurl.pc.in
index c234170e5..456850c2b 100644
--- a/libcurl.pc.in
+++ b/libcurl.pc.in
@@ -1,10 +1,38 @@
+#***************************************************************************
+#                                  _   _ ____  _
+#  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+#                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+#                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+#                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2004 - 2007, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+#
+# You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+#
+# This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.
+#
+# $Id$
+###########################################################################
+
+# This should most probably benefit from getting a "Requires:" field added
+# dynamically by configure.
+#
 prefix=@prefix@
 exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
 libdir=@libdir@
 includedir=@includedir@
 
 Name: libcurl
+URL: http://curl.haxx.se/
 Description: Library to transfer files with ftp, http, etc.
 Version: @VERSION@
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lcurl @LDFLAGS@ @LIBS@
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lcurl @LDFLAGS@
+Libs.private: @LIBS@
 Cflags: -I${includedir}