diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 09b140a1..75d56ad8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ fail2ban (0.9.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
   * Moved python3-systemd to Recommends from Suggests given that systemd is
     the default init system now.  Should help people upgrading on Ubuntu 15.04
     as well
+  * Added regular python to Recommends since apache-fakegooglebot still python2
 
  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:15:56 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 814d7ef1..65b7276c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Package: fail2ban
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>=2.0-7)
-Recommends: iptables, whois, python3-pyinotify, python3-systemd
+Recommends: python, iptables, whois, python3-pyinotify, python3-systemd
 Suggests: mailx, system-log-daemon, monit
 Description: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
  Fail2ban monitors log files (e.g. /var/log/auth.log,