diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index e400303..db9fd3a 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper, fakeroot, svn2cl, subversion, subversion-tools, pkg-co
 Package: @PACKAGE_NAME@
 Section: development
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} debootstrap qemu-user-static
 Description: @DESCRIPTION@
 @README_DEB@
 
diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap-to-docker.sh b/scripts/bootstrap-to-docker.sh
index 6d17cdc..ff09b54 100755
--- a/scripts/bootstrap-to-docker.sh
+++ b/scripts/bootstrap-to-docker.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
 
-# pass your docker hub login name as $1, defaults to your user name
-# you should have a repositories named ubuntu and debian
-# if you have your own repository, you can also prepend it:
-# my.repo.url:5000/myname the script will then append ubuntu or debian
-# e.g. to my.repo.url:5000/myname/ubuntu:trusty-amd64
-# please login to docker before you start this script
-docker_user=${1:-${docker_user:-$(id -un)}}
-
 if test -f /etc/setup-debootstrap.conf; then
     . /etc/setup-debootstrap.conf
 fi
@@ -17,7 +9,6 @@ fi
 
 tmpdir=${tmpdir:-"/var/tmp/chroots"}
 test -d "${tmpdir}" || mkdir -p "${tmpdir}"
-docker_user=${docker_user:-${USER}}
 if test -z "${ports[@]}"; then
     #ports=( armhf powerpc ppc64el s390x arm64   )
     #qemus=( arm   ppc     ppc64   s390x aarch64 )
@@ -39,14 +30,16 @@ fi
 excludes="precise-armhf stretch-armhf"
 no_universe="jessie sid wheezy"
 
-ubuntu="zesty yakkety xenial trusty"
-debian="stretch jessie sid"
+ubuntu="bionic artful zesty xenial trusty"
+debian="buster stretch jessie sid"
 # not yet successfully installable: ubuntu zesty, debian buster
 
 distros=(${distros:-"${ubuntu[@]}" "${debian[@]}"})
 
 packages_qt5="libpoppler-qt5-dev libpodofo-dev libqt5designer5 libqt5svg5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev qt5-default qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools"
 packages_base="apt-transport-https automake autotools-dev binutils-dev debhelper default-jdk-headless doxygen dpkg-dev g++ git graphviz libboost-thread-dev libcppunit-dev liblog4cxx-dev libpcsclite-dev libpkcs11-helper1-dev libproxy-dev libssl-dev libtool libz-dev lsb-release mscgen nodejs pandoc pkg-config software-properties-common subversion subversion-tools xvfb texinfo"
+package_not_in_bionic="libpoppler-qt5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev texinfo libcppunit-dev liblog4cxx-dev mscgen nodejs pandoc xvfb libpodofo-dev libqt5designer5 qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools qttools5-dev"
+package_not_in_artful="texinfo libcppunit-dev liblog4cxx-dev mscgen nodejs pandoc xvfb libpodofo-dev libqt5designer5 qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools qttools5-dev"
 package_not_in_stretch="libssl-dev"
 package_not_in_zesty="texinfo libcppunit-dev liblog4cxx-dev mscgen nodejs pandoc xvfb libpodofo-dev libqt5designer5 qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools qttools5-dev"
 #package_not_in_yakkety="default-jdk-headless"
@@ -64,11 +57,44 @@ fi
 fastmode=0;
 limit=
 arch=
+docker_user=${docker_user:-${USER:-$(id -un)}}
 while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
     case "$1" in
+        (-h|--help) cat <<EOF
+SYNPOSIS: $0 [OPTIONS]
+
+OPTIONS:
+
+  -h, --help             show this help
+  -f, --fastmode         don't update existing distribution
+  -l, --limit <distro>   limit to given ditribution
+  -a, --arch <arch>      limit to given architecture
+  -u, --user <name>      docker hub user name
+
+VARIABLES:
+
+  docker_user            docker hub user name (${docker_user})
+  tmpdir                 temporary directory (${tmpdir})
+
+DESCRIPTION:
+
+Bootstraps chroots in ${tmpdir} for distro ubuntu and debian
+distributions of architecture ${archs// /, }, updates them and creates
+docker images on docker hub with tag
+${docker_user}/<distro>:<codename>-<architecture>. You should have a
+repositories named ubuntu and debian. You can the use these images
+e.g. for compiling packages in jenkins. If you have your own
+repository, you can also prepend it to docker hub user name,
+e.g. my.repo.url:5000/myname the script will then append ubuntu or
+debian, e.g. to my.repo.url:5000/myname/ubuntu:trusty-amd64. Please
+login to docker hub before you start this script.
+
+EOF
+                    exit 0;;
         (-f|--fastmode) fastmode=1;;
         (-l|--limit) shift; limit=$1;;
         (-a|--arch) shift; arch=$1;;
+        (-u|--user) shift; docker_user=$1;;
         (*)
             echo "**** ERROR: unknown option $1" 1>&2
             exit 1;;
@@ -89,8 +115,9 @@ error() {
 
 for ((i=0; i<${#distros[@]}; ++i)); do
     for distro in ${distros[$i]}; do
-        prevent=package_not_in_${distro};
-        instpkgs=${packages}
+        prevent=package_not_in_${distro}
+        distropkgs=packages_${distro}
+        instpkgs="${packages} ${!distropkgs}"
         for pkg in ${!prevent}; do
             instpkgs=${instpkgs//${pkg}/}
         done