diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dbc90bf1d..9b84141ad 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ linux (3.2.37-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   [ Aurelien Jarno ]
   * [armhf/vexpress] Add kernel udebs.
 
+  [ Cyril Brulebois ]
+  * Bump python build-dep, needed since the switch from local SortedDict
+    to collections.OrderedDict (new in version 2.7).
+
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:17:44 +0100
 
 linux (3.2.35-2) unstable; urgency=low
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index e1161eedf..f4d34c6d5 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Frederik Schüler <fs@debian.org>, maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), cpio, kmod | module-init-tools, python (>= 2.6.6-3~), lzma [armel], kernel-wedge (>= 2.84), quilt, patchutils
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), cpio, kmod | module-init-tools, python (>= 2.7), lzma [armel], kernel-wedge (>= 2.84), quilt, patchutils
 Build-Depends-Indep: bzip2, xmlto
 Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/linux/
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel/dists/trunk/linux/