diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ad44dcf7..0b22de91 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+python-botocore (1.10.15+repack-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * d/control: Bump required version of python-requests to 2.7.0
+    (Thanks to Jan Kriho for report)
+
+ -- Ondřej Nový <onovy@debian.org>  Wed, 09 May 2018 12:32:23 +0200
+
 python-botocore (1.10.15+repack-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Ondřej Nový ]
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c34a046f..41ccedb1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-botocore
 
 Package: python-botocore
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-requests, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-requests (>= 2.7.0), ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3 (Python 2)
  A low-level interface to a growing number of Amazon Web Services.
  The botocore package is the foundation for AWS-CLI.