diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c72ed4def..ad014e239 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -37,5 +37,6 @@ freeipa (3.1.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     install the python bits to the correct path.
   * fix-ntpdate-opts.diff: Drop -U from nptdate opts, we don't have
     that.
+  * control: Add python-dnspython to client depends.
 
  -- Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:52:25 -0400
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7cec98e7b..a94043f8f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends},
  libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit,
  libxmlrpc-core-c3 (>= 1.16.33-3.1ubuntu5),
  ntp,
+ python-dnspython,
  python-ldap,
  python-krbv,
  sssd (>= 1.9.2),