diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9f3d4ba63..68376f76f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Homepage: http://scrapy.org/
 
 Package: scrapy-SUFFIX
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-libxml2, python-twisted, python-openssl, python-w3lib
+Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-libxml2, python-twisted, python-openssl, python-w3lib (>= 1.1-r23)
 Recommends: python-setuptools
 Conflicts: python-scrapy, scrapy, scrapy-0.11
 Provides: python-scrapy, scrapy