diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a374346d111..4f73115b207 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -271,12 +271,11 @@ Description: MariaDB database regression test suite
 Package: mariadb-server-10.1
 Architecture: any
 Suggests: mailx, mariadb-test, netcat-openbsd, socat, tinyca
-Recommends: libhtml-template-perl
+Recommends: libhtml-template-perl, galera-3 (>=25.3)
 Pre-Depends: mariadb-common, adduser (>= 3.40), debconf
 Depends: bsdutils,
          coreutils,
          findutils,
-         galera-3 (>=25.3),
          gawk,
          grep,
          iproute,