diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2210e798..e314a35c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Description: Python modules for image processing
 Package: python-scikits.image-doc
 Architecture: all
 Section: doc
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libjs-jquery, libjs-underscore
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libjs-jquery
 Suggests: python-scikits.image
 Description: Documentation and examples for scikits-image
  This package contains documentation and example scripts for
diff --git a/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.links b/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.links
index 7e9acc12..6e8db971 100644
--- a/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.links
+++ b/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.links
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js usr/share/doc/python-scikits.statsmodels-doc/html/_static/jquery.js
-usr/share/javascript/underscore/underscore.js usr/share/doc/python-scikits.statsmodels-doc/html/_static/underscore.js
diff --git a/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.lintian-overrides b/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.lintian-overrides
index 3e9a4b32..9a6b07d5 100644
--- a/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.lintian-overrides
+++ b/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.lintian-overrides
@@ -2,3 +2,8 @@
 #
 
 python-scikits.image-doc binary: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/python-scikits.image-doc/html/_sources/license.txt
+
+# For easy backportability just rely on the shipped copy of underscore.js for now until problems with nodejs get resolved
+#
+
+python-scikits.image-doc binary: embedded-javascript-library usr/share/doc/python-scikits.image-doc/html/_static/underscore.js
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index bb121983..6db21fa1 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ endif
 
 	: # Use jquery and underscore from Debian package, so prune shipped one
 	-rm -f doc/build/html/_static/jquery.js
-	-rm -f doc/build/html/_static/underscore.js
+	# Actually due to the problems with underscore pkg across releases just ship one for now
+	#-rm -f doc/build/html/_static/underscore.js
 	-rf -f doc/build/html/_sources
 	-rf -f doc/build/html/.buildinfo