diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f3ee771cd320385eab7a16b54852750b8cc9c8ef..832e40c6d84142f08a84b79f06174dae6b63aec8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ scikit-learn (0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low
     - Build-Depends:
       - multilined
       - dropped swig (not needed since awhile)
+      - moved sphinx, PIL, and graphviz to Build-Depends-Indep since
+        needed only for -doc package
 
- -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:14:16 -0400
+ -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:16:04 -0400
 
 scikit-learn (0.14~a1+git20-gc9ba2c3-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 41db61085e04ce9e5e04d323bad827ee9e0e11b0..d2a3b775abb77726333e87b1e6a6952d367627c7 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50),
                python-setuptools,
                python-numpy, python-scipy,
                libsvm-dev (>= 2.84.0),
-               python-sphinx (>= 1.1.3~), python-imaging, graphviz,
                python-nose,
                python-matplotlib,
                python-joblib (>= 0.4.5),
+Build-Depends-Indep:
+               python-sphinx (>= 1.1.3~), python-imaging, graphviz,
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6
 Homepage: http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net