diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0e6f10d..523e216 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-libdata-visitor-perl (0.28-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+libdata-visitor-perl (0.28-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Ansgar Burchardt ]
   * debian/control: Convert Vcs-* fields to Git.
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@
   * Bumped year of upstream copyright.
   * Added myself to Uploaders and copyright.
   * Updated DEP-5 format specification and headers.
-
- -- Florian Schlichting <fschlich@zedat.fu-berlin.de>  Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:57:55 +0100
+  * Added optional libdata-alias-perl to Recommends, earlier build problems
+    have been fixed.
+
+ -- Florian Schlichting <fschlich@zedat.fu-berlin.de>  Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:49:12 +0000
 
 libdata-visitor-perl (0.27-3) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ae01096..20dc319 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
  libmoose-perl (>= 0.89),
  libnamespace-clean-perl (>= 0.19),
  libtie-toobject-perl
+Recommends: libdata-alias-perl
 Description: Visitor implementation for Perl data structures
  Data::Visitor is a simple visitor implementation for Perl data structures. It
  has a main dispatcher method, visit, which takes a single Perl value and then