diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6891ba4..9e9760d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: python2.7
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), quilt, autoconf, libreadline-dev, libncursesw5-dev (>= 5.3), tk8.5-dev, zlib1g-dev, blt-dev (>= 2.4z), libssl-dev, libexpat1-dev, sharutils, libbz2-dev, libbluetooth-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], locales [!armel !avr32 !hppa !ia64 !mipsel], libsqlite3-dev, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5), mime-support, libgpm2 [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], netbase, lsb-release, bzip2, libdb4.8-dev, gdb, python
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), quilt, autoconf, libreadline-dev, libncursesw5-dev (>= 5.3), tk8.5-dev, zlib1g-dev, blt-dev (>= 2.4z), libssl-dev, libexpat1-dev, sharutils, libbz2-dev, libbluetooth-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], locales [!armel !avr32 !hppa !ia64 !mipsel], libsqlite3-dev, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5), mime-support, libgpm2 [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], netbase, lsb-release, bzip2, libdb-dev (>= 5.1), gdb, python
 Build-Depends-Indep: python-sphinx
 Build-Conflicts: tcl8.3-dev, tk8.3-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, python2.7-xml, python-xml, autoconf2.13
 XS-Python-Version: 2.7
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index af0ebad..71f68d8 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: @PVER@
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), quilt, autoconf, libreadline-dev, libncursesw5-dev (>= 5.3), tk8.5-dev, zlib1g-dev, blt-dev (>= 2.4z), libssl-dev, libexpat1-dev, sharutils, libbz2-dev, libbluetooth-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], locales [!armel !avr32 !hppa !ia64 !mipsel], libsqlite3-dev, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5), mime-support, libgpm2 [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], netbase, lsb-release, bzip2, libdb4.8-dev, gdb, python
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), quilt, autoconf, libreadline-dev, libncursesw5-dev (>= 5.3), tk8.5-dev, zlib1g-dev, blt-dev (>= 2.4z), libssl-dev, libexpat1-dev, sharutils, libbz2-dev, libbluetooth-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], locales [!armel !avr32 !hppa !ia64 !mipsel], libsqlite3-dev, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5), mime-support, libgpm2 [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], netbase, lsb-release, bzip2, libdb-dev (>= 5.1), gdb, python
 Build-Depends-Indep: python-sphinx
 Build-Conflicts: tcl8.3-dev, tk8.3-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, @PVER@-xml, python-xml, autoconf2.13
 XS-Python-Version: @VER@
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6c512a5..e6850ff 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         # a release.  Most open source OSes come with one or more
         # versions of BerkeleyDB already installed.
 
-        max_db_ver = (4, 8)
+        max_db_ver = (5, 1)
         min_db_ver = (4, 1)
         db_setup_debug = False   # verbose debug prints from this script?
 
@@ -798,7 +798,11 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
             return True
 
         def gen_db_minor_ver_nums(major):
-            if major == 4:
+            if major == 5:
+                for x in range(max_db_ver[1]+1):
+                    if allow_db_ver((5, x)):
+                        yield x
+            elif major == 4:
                 for x in range(max_db_ver[1]+1):
                     if allow_db_ver((4, x)):
                         yield x