diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 073be14..42a3cb7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+emdebian-rootfs (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Allow empty keyring values.
+
+ -- Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>  Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:18:02 +0100
+
 emdebian-rootfs (2.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Fix typos in translated strings.
diff --git a/em_multistrap b/em_multistrap
index ff7bc93..5f3a6f2 100755
--- a/em_multistrap
+++ b/em_multistrap
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ my $k;
 foreach my $pkg (values %keyrings)
 {
 	next if (not defined $pkg);
+	next if ("" eq "$pkg");
 	my $status = `LC_ALL=C dpkg -s $pkg`;
 	next if $status =~ /Status: install ok installed/;
 	$k .= "$pkg ";