diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6300cc358..0b9a53fc1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ linux-tools (4.5~rc5-1~exp4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * linux-kbuild: Include scripts/Makefile.* (Closes: #815593)
   * Makefile.inc, rules.real: Fix conflation of $(DESTDIR) and $(prefix)
   * hyperv-daemons: Fix rule redefinition that 'make' warns about
+  * debian/control: Build-Depend on dh-python, as dh_python2 warns we should
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Mon, 22 Feb 2016 23:21:57 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index 761bf9b6a..791ec51ca 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ Build-Depends:
  debhelper (>> 7), python3,
  asciidoc, bison, flex, gcc-multilib [amd64 ppc64 s390x sparc64], libaudit-dev, libdw-dev, libelf-dev, libiberty-dev | binutils-dev (<< 2.23.91.20131123-1), libnewt-dev, libnuma-dev [amd64 arm64 hppa i386 mips mips64 mips64el mipsel powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 ppc64el sparc x32], libperl-dev, libunwind8-dev [amd64 armel armhf arm64 i386], python-dev, xmlto,
  autoconf, automake, libtool, libglib2.0-dev, libudev-dev, libwrap0-dev,
- dh-systemd
+ dh-python, dh-systemd
 Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/kernel/linux-tools.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux-tools.git