diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Homepage: http://scrapy.org/
 Package: scrapy
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-libxml2, python-twisted, python-openssl
+Conflicts: python-scrapy
+Provides: python-scrapy
 Description: Python web crawling and scraping framework
  Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, 
  used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages.