diff --git a/debian/cacert-boardvoting.postinst b/debian/cacert-boardvoting.postinst
index 8d9c5fb..2efcdd8 100644
--- a/debian/cacert-boardvoting.postinst
+++ b/debian/cacert-boardvoting.postinst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ case "$1" in
         adduser --system --quiet --home /srv/cacert-boardvoting cacert-boardvoting
         DATADIR=/srv/cacert-boardvoting/data
         if [ -d "${DATADIR}" ]; then
-            chown -R cacert-boardvoting "${DATADIR}"
+            chown cacert-boardvoting "${DATADIR}"
         else
             install -d --owner cacert-boardvoting --mode 0700 "${DATADIR}"
         fi
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ee8a596..b0f0c4b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ cacert-boardvoting (0.6.0-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * update for Debian buster
   * update to debhelper 12
   * use /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk
+  * fix maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod
 
  -- Jan Dittberner <jandd@cacert.org>  Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:57:13 +0200