diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bd8e4de..9bf5fb5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+ruby-omniauth-twitter (1.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Relax dependency on ruby-json 
+
+ -- Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>  Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:31:34 +0530
+
 ruby-omniauth-twitter (1.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4ed5f3c..adce497 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~),
                gem2deb,
                rake,
-               ruby-json (<< 2.0),
                ruby-json (>= 1.3),
                ruby-multi-json,
                ruby-omniauth-oauth (<< 2.0),
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@
                ruby-rspec,
                ruby-safe-yaml (>= 1.0.4),
                ruby-webmock
-Standards-Version: 3.9.7
+Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-omniauth-twitter.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-omniauth-twitter.git
 Homepage: https://github.com/arunagw/omniauth-twitter
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@
 Architecture: all
 XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions}
 Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter,
-         ruby-json (<< 2.0),
          ruby-json (>= 1.3),
          ruby-omniauth-oauth (<< 2.0),
          ruby-omniauth-oauth (>= 1.1),
diff --git a/debian/patches/relax-json.patch b/debian/patches/relax-json.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..317beb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/relax-json.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/omniauth-twitter.gemspec
++++ b/omniauth-twitter.gemspec
+@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
+   s.executables   = `git ls-files -- bin/*`.split("\n").map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
+   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
+ 
+-  s.add_dependency 'json', '~> 1.3'
++  s.add_dependency 'json', '>= 1.3'
+   s.add_dependency 'omniauth-oauth', '~> 1.1'
+   s.add_development_dependency 'bundler', '~> 1.0'
+ end
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 93f0321..96935be 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 remove-simplecov.patch
+relax-json.patch