diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3eecba74f..947907c39 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 Package: ikiwiki
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${perl:Depends}, libxml-simple-perl, markdown, libtimedate-perl, libhtml-template-perl, libhtml-scrubber-perl, libcgi-formbuilder-perl (>= 3.02.02), libtime-duration-perl, libcgi-session-perl, libmail-sendmail-perl, gcc | c-compiler, libc6-dev | libc-dev, libhtml-parser-perl
-Recommends: subversion | git-core | tla | mercurual, hyperestraier
+Recommends: subversion | git-core | tla | mercurial, hyperestraier
 Suggests: viewcvs, librpc-xml-perl, libtext-wikiformat-perl, python-docutils, polygen, tidy, libxml-feed-perl, libmailtools-perl
 Description: a wiki compiler
  ikiwiki converts a directory full of wiki pages into html pages suitable