diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 95e4981..cb3a880 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ alien (8.81) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Prevent DESTROY stomping on alien's exit code sometimes.
   * Support extracting lzma compressed RPMs. 
     (Patch by unnamed person on some bug tracking system I don't frequent.)
+  * Suggest lzma. If not installed, alien will still fail to decompress
+    RPMs using it, but will support most rpms, which are not.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:29:19 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index db67fb0..2ff1fed 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Package: alien
 Architecture: all
 Section: admin
 Depends: debhelper (>= 3), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
-Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian
+Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian, lzma
 Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
  Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
  into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.