diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e42172f9..558832f7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ linkchecker (2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.
   * Depend on python 2.4 packages.
+  * Make python2.4-optcomplete a suggestion.
 
  -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:24:12 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ff451ff6..2cb1741a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Standards-Version: 3.6.1
 
 Package: linkchecker
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${python:Depends}, python2.4-optcomplete
+Depends: ${python:Depends}
 Conflicts: linkchecker-ssl
-Suggests: apache | httpd, python2.4-psyco
+Suggests: apache | httpd, python2.4-psyco, python2.4-optcomplete
 Description: check HTML documents for broken links
  Features:
   o recursive checking