diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e314a35c..2210e798 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
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libjs-jquery, libjs-underscore
 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
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e9acc12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/python-scikits.image-doc.links
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+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/rules b/debian/rules
index f1b57a41..bb121983 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ endif
 	   mv $$lib $$tdir ; \
 	done
 
-	: # Use jquery from Debian package, so prune shipped one
+	: # 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
 	-rf -f doc/build/html/_sources
 	-rf -f doc/build/html/.buildinfo
 
@@ -74,5 +75,3 @@ override_dh_compress:
 
 override_dh_installdocs:
 	dh_installdocs -A CONTRIBUTORS.txt README.txt DEVELOPMENT.txt TASKS.txt
-	dh_link /usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js \
-		/usr/share/doc/$(PACKAGE_NAME)-doc/html/_static/jquery.js