diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d94b29331..43d48859f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Homepage: http://scrapy.org/
 
 Package: scrapy-SUFFIX
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-lxml, python-twisted, python-openssl, python-w3lib (>= 1.1-r23)
+Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-lxml, python-twisted, python-openssl, python-w3lib (>= 1.2)
 Recommends: python-setuptools
 Conflicts: python-scrapy, scrapy, scrapy-0.11
 Provides: python-scrapy, scrapy
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7e5349b3e..f110f536c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -120,6 +120,6 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from distutils.core import setup
 else:
-    setup_args['install_requires'] = ['Twisted>=8.0', 'w3lib>=1.1', 'lxml', 'pyOpenSSL']
+    setup_args['install_requires'] = ['Twisted>=8.0', 'w3lib>=1.2', 'lxml', 'pyOpenSSL']
  
 setup(**setup_args)