diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 84e545e..6ec6614 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), build-essential, mono-gmcs, python-dev, ant,
     mono-devel,  libmono-system-web2.0-cil, erlang-base, ruby1.8-dev, autoconf, python-support,
     automake, pkg-config, libtool, bison, flex, libboost-dev | libboost1.40-dev, python-all,
-    python-all-dev, python-all-dbg, openjdk-6-jdk | java-sdk, libcommons-lang3-java,
+    python-all-dev, python-all-dbg, openjdk-6-jdk | java-sdk,
     libboost-test-dev | libboost-test1.40-dev, libevent-dev, perl (>= 5.8.0-7),
     php5, php5-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libqt4-dev
 Maintainer: Thrift Developer's <dev@thrift.apache.org>
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@
 Architecture: all
 Section: libs
 Depends: java-gcj-compat | java1-runtime | java2-runtime, ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: libcommons-lang3-java
 Description: Java bindings for Thrift
  Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services
  development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to