diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 95ba45a88075f5a1d28c3c6128d929b3a33a6329..1a08f9d2263fdcd2c541660f20398c9233a61329 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 tar (1.30+dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 
-  * don't deliver empty /usr/lib/tar in tar package, closes: #919493
+  * change libexecdir in configure to /usr/sbin, closes: #760247, #919493
   * switched to upstream man pages as of 1.29b, closes: #729980, #391060
   * add references to the non-free tar-doc package, and the URL for the
     tar documentation on the FSF's web site to README.Debian, 
     closes: #711726
 
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:07:52 -0700
+ -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:43:28 -0700
 
 tar (1.30+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index fd5d4bc61b7782d183988c2ad18771ab3fae7dbf..dd54a9d98f0d9691cabb42060088484a35bc23c7 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ configure-stamp:
 	autoreconf --force -v --install
 	RSH="/usr/bin/rsh" CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" ./configure \
 		--prefix=/usr \
-		--libexecdir=/usr/lib/tar \
+		--libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
 		--enable-backup-scripts \
 		--with-lzma=xz \
 		--disable-silent-rules \
@@ -69,16 +69,15 @@ install: build
 	dh_installdirs
 
 	make install bindir=`pwd`/debian/tar/bin prefix=`pwd`/debian/tar/usr \
-		libexecdir=`pwd`/debian/tar/usr/lib/tar 
+		libexecdir=`pwd`/debian/tar/usr/sbin 
+	mv debian/tar/usr/sbin/rmt debian/tar/usr/sbin/rmt-tar
 	ln -s /usr/sbin/rmt debian/tar/etc/rmt
-	mv debian/tar/usr/lib/tar/rmt debian/tar/usr/sbin/rmt-tar
 	install -m 755 debian/tarcat debian/tar/usr/sbin/tarcat
 
 	mv debian/tar/usr/sbin/backup debian/tar-scripts/usr/sbin/tar-backup
 	mv debian/tar/usr/sbin/restore debian/tar-scripts/usr/sbin/tar-restore
-	mv debian/tar/usr/lib/tar/backup.sh debian/tar-scripts/usr/lib/tar/
-	mv debian/tar/usr/lib/tar/dump-remind debian/tar-scripts/usr/lib/tar/
-	rmdir debian/tar/usr/lib
+	mv debian/tar/usr/sbin/backup.sh debian/tar-scripts/usr/sbin/
+	mv debian/tar/usr/sbin/dump-remind debian/tar-scripts/usr/sbin/
 	
 # Build architecture-independent files here.
 binary-indep: build install
diff --git a/debian/tar-scripts.dirs b/debian/tar-scripts.dirs
index db9fa801a06515202ffdd6a593d8428071ff8321..236670a2d0f482de71df55c13f785fadb3cd13df 100644
--- a/debian/tar-scripts.dirs
+++ b/debian/tar-scripts.dirs
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-usr/lib/tar
 usr/sbin