Some improves from upstream

You may also need to override override_dh_strip_nondeterminism by adding the following lines to debian/rules:
override_dh_strip_nondeterminism:

Until we have dh_strip_nondeterminism in Fedora.

debhelper.spec

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 Name:           debhelper
 Version:        11.4
 Release:        3%{?dist}
-Summary:        Helper programs for Debian rules
+Summary:        Helper programs for debian/rules
 
 License:        GPLv2+
 URL:            http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debhelper/
@@ -58,19 +58,36 @@ BuildRequires:  perl(Test::More)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Test::Pod)
 
 Requires:       binutils
-Requires:       dpkg-dev >= 1.18.0
+Requires:       dh-autoreconf >= 17
+Requires:       dpkg >= 1.18.0
+Requires:       dpkg-dev >= 1.18.2
+Requires:       dpkg-perl >= 1.17.14
 Requires:       html2text
 Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
 Requires:       perl(Dpkg::BuildProfiles)
 Requires:       po-debconf
+#Suggests:       dh-make
+#Provides: dh-sequence-dwz,
+#          dh-sequence-installinitramfs,
+#          dh-sequence-systemd,
+#Provides: dh-systemd
+#Depends: autotools-dev,
+#         dh-strip-nondeterminism (>= 0.028~),
+#         dwz,
+#         file (>= 3.23),
+#         man-db,
+#         ${misc:Depends},
+#         ${perl:Depends}
+#        cmake (<< 3.9~),
+#        meson (<< 0.40.0~),
 
 %description
-A collection of programs that can be used in a Debian rules file
+A collection of programs that can be used in a debian/rules file to
-to automate common tasks related to building Debian packages.
+automate common tasks related to building Debian packages. Programs
-Programs are included to install various files into your package,
+are included to install various files into your package, compress
-compress files, fix file permissions, integrate your package with
+files, fix file permissions, integrate your package with the Debian
-the Debian menu system, debconf, doc-base, etc. Most Debian
+menu system, debconf, doc-base, etc. Most Debian packages use debhelper
-packages use debhelper as part of their build process.
+as part of their build process.
 
 %prep
 #debug