diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bfcd6725a2..712696fe07 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ git-annex (5.20150732) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * fsck: Commit incremental fsck database after every 1000 files
     fscked, or every 5 minutes, whichever comes first. Previously,
     commits were made every 1000 files fscked.
+  * Tighten dependency on optparse-applicative to 0.11.0.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:31:39 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 860724667b..296034253a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Build-Depends:
 	libghc-tasty-hunit-dev,
 	libghc-tasty-quickcheck-dev,
 	libghc-tasty-rerun-dev,
-	libghc-optparse-applicative-dev (>= 0.10),
+	libghc-optparse-applicative-dev (>= 0.11.0),
 	lsof [linux-any],
 	ikiwiki,
 	perlmagick,
diff --git a/git-annex.cabal b/git-annex.cabal
index 5d72b0e488..22876e0cc6 100644
--- a/git-annex.cabal
+++ b/git-annex.cabal
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Executable git-annex
   Main-Is: git-annex.hs
   Build-Depends:
    base (>= 4.5 && < 4.9),
-   optparse-applicative (>= 0.10), 
+   optparse-applicative (>= 0.11.0), 
    cryptohash (>= 0.11.0),
    containers (>= 0.5.0.0), 
    exceptions (>= 0.6),