diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 08c22e02..01f54a1f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ byobu (4.48) unreleased; urgency=low
       or left in the list
   * usr/lib/byobu/ip_address:
     - remove some first-launch noise, when ip address is not yet available
+  * debian/control:
+    - we really need tmux 1.5 to take advantage of its features
+    - N.B.: I have pushed backports of tmux 1.5-1 to ppa:byobu/ppa
 
  -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:54:11 -0600
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0d349fe5..108ac41b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ 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: run-one, tmux
+Recommends: run-one, tmux (>= 1.5)
 Suggests: apport, vim, w3m, po-debconf, update-notifier-common, lsb-release
 Provides: screen-profiles, screen-profiles-extras, byobu-extras
 Replaces: screen-profiles (<< 2.0), screen-profiles-extras (<< 2.0), byobu-extras (<< 2.17)