diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d461f7ea..ea62a4ce 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ fail2ban (0.8.7-1) experimental; urgency=low
   * debian/control,rules:
     - switch to use dh_python2 (Closes: #616803)
     - boost policy compliance to 3.9.3
+    - recommend python-pyinotify and only suggest python-gamin
 
  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:51:40 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bdb1b540..ab39c88a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 Package: fail2ban
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>=2.0-7)
-Recommends: iptables, whois, python-gamin
-Suggests: mailx
-XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
+Recommends: iptables, whois, python-pyinotify
+Suggests: python-gamin, mailx
 Description: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
  Fail2ban monitors log files (e.g. /var/log/auth.log,
  /var/log/apache/access.log) and temporarily or persistently bans