diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 928db3da994d4fd27c0dba2d88abc1cab88a7ee6..27a5ce2ddeddff178c6c2e3e6379e7ee7d2989f3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 python-defaults (2.7.15-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Fix some lintian warnings.
+  * Fix typo in dh_python2(1) (Chris Lamb). Closes: #901079.
 
  -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:15:52 +0200
 
diff --git a/dh_python2.1 b/dh_python2.1
index 8d560bf6acf81ddab2e0fbf3eeef25f9a4cd11c3..b80b16f7b9bf0f4995b96548c5d3ba1ab6b60932 100644
--- a/dh_python2.1
+++ b/dh_python2.1
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ more strict dependencies (f.e. to avoid ABI problems) create
 debian/python\-foo.pydist file. See /usr/share/doc/python\-doc/README.PyDist
 (provided by python\-doc package) for more information. If the pydist file
 contains PEP386 flag or set of (uscan like) rules, dh_python2 will make the
-depedency versioned (version requirements are ignored by default).
+dependency versioned (version requirements are ignored by default).
 .SS namespace feature
 .sp
 dh_python2 parses Egg\(aqs namespace_packages.txt files (in addition to
diff --git a/dh_python2.rst b/dh_python2.rst
index 8bdde943ded06121d3c0d8a725f6cf13136dbb06..075411ced2d3d032fef1c631c55be5994ebf7932 100644
--- a/dh_python2.rst
+++ b/dh_python2.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ more strict dependencies (f.e. to avoid ABI problems) create
 debian/python-foo.pydist file. See /usr/share/doc/python-doc/README.PyDist
 (provided by python-doc package) for more information. If the pydist file
 contains PEP386 flag or set of (uscan like) rules, dh_python2 will make the
-depedency versioned (version requirements are ignored by default).
+dependency versioned (version requirements are ignored by default).
 
 namespace feature
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~