diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d13af49672..1529582ddd 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 
 Package: cassandra
 Architecture: all
-Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b11) | java6-runtime, jsvc (>= 1.0), libcommons-daemon-java (>= 1.0), adduser, libjna-java, python-cql, ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b11) | java6-runtime, jsvc (>= 1.0), libcommons-daemon-java (>= 1.0), adduser, libjna-java, python-cql, python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0), ${misc:Depends}
 Conflicts: apache-cassandra1
 Replaces: apache-cassandra1
 Description: distributed storage system for structured data