diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3bcfb6cb..5f5ee972 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ byobu (5.1) unreleased; urgency=low
 
   * usr/bin/byobu-select-backend:
     - switch the order of the listed backends
+  * debian/control:
+    - depend on tmux, recommend screen
 
  -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:35:04 -0600
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9c80c2d6..2ad3ac38 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kirkland/byobu/trunk
 
 Package: byobu
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, screen, gettext-base, python, python-newt (>= 0.52.2-11)
-Recommends: tmux (>= 1.5)
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, gettext-base, python, python-newt (>= 0.52.2-11), tmux (>= 1.5)
+Recommends: screen
 Suggests: apport, vim, w3m, po-debconf, update-notifier-common, lsb-release, run-one
 Provides: screen-profiles, screen-profiles-extras, byobu-extras
 Replaces: screen-profiles (<< 2.0), screen-profiles-extras (<< 2.0), byobu-extras (<< 2.17)