diff --git a/docs/intro/install.rst b/docs/intro/install.rst
index 978d89920..3adb4e6b0 100644
--- a/docs/intro/install.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/install.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ You can install Scrapy with ``pip`` after that::
 
     pip install Scrapy
 
+.. note::
+
+    The same non-python dependencies can be used to install Scrapy in Debian
+    Wheezy (7.0) and above.
+
 Archlinux
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