diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 71700258..325c277d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
 Uploaders: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), python-all-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~), python-numpy, python-sphinx, python-nose, python-setuptools, cython (>= 0.13), python-matplotlib, python-scipy, libfreeimage3, python-imaging
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
-XS-Python-Version: >= 2.5
+XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6
 Homepage: http://scikits-image.org
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/scikits-image/scikits-image
 Vcs-Git: git://github.com/scikits-image/scikits-image.git