diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8028f5ae3d..b256d983fd 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 
 Package: cassandra
 Architecture: all
-Depends: openjdk-8-jre-headless | java8-runtime, adduser, python3 (>= 3.6), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: openjdk-8-jre-headless | java8-runtime, adduser, python3 (>= 3.6), ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}
 Recommends: ntp | time-daemon
 Suggests: cassandra-tools
 Conflicts: apache-cassandra1