diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 16833150..ef0b16c8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+fail2ban (0.10.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Arturo Borrero Gonzalez ]
+  * Recommend nftables as an alternative to iptables (Closes: #892472)
+
+ -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:32:43 -0500
+
 fail2ban (0.10.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Yaroslav Halchenko ]
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index dd0b9ff7..2340b90a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Standards-Version: 4.1.3
 Package: fail2ban
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>=2.0-7)
-Recommends: python, nftables, whois, python3-pyinotify, python3-systemd
+Recommends: python, iptables|nftables, whois, python3-pyinotify, python3-systemd
 Suggests: mailx, system-log-daemon, monit, sqlite3
 Description: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
  Fail2ban monitors log files (e.g. /var/log/auth.log,