diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3a96d83e..9f8f46c5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ mosquitto (1.4.14-2) unstable; urgency=low
   * Fix lintian warning "extended-description-line-too-long"
   * The 1.4.14 release relaxes the restrictions on client ids, which means
     that the mosquitto_pub/sub autogenerated ids are no longer a problem.
-    (closes #870165).
+    (closes: #870165).
 
  -- Roger A. Light <roger@atchoo.org>  Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:03:57 +0000