diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e2823af1..c4d7d9b8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kirkland/screen-profiles/main
 
 Package: screen-profiles
 Architecture: all
-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, screen, gettext-base, debianutils, python-dialog
+Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, screen, gettext-base, debianutils, python-newt
 Recommends: update-notifier-common
 Suggests: bc
 Description: a set of useful profiles and a profile-switcher for GNU screen