diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 3237b3dc..4b7f60cb 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Currently, the major difference with upstream: python libraries are
 placed under /usr/share/fail2ban instead of /usr/lib/fail2ban to
 comply with policy regarding architecture independent resources.
 
+fail2ban supports both nftables and iptables.
+
 Shorewall and startup sequence (#847728)
 ----------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 554ba4c3..1928e3f6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 fail2ban (0.11.1-1~exp3) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * Add myself to the list of uploaders
+  * nftables is now more important than iptables. Update of the priority
+    and doc
 
  --
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6509a253..c34141cf 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Standards-Version: 4.4.1
 Package: fail2ban
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>=2.0-7)
-Recommends: iptables|nftables, whois, python3-pyinotify, python3-systemd
+Recommends: nftables | iptables, whois, python3-pyinotify, python3-systemd
 Suggests: mailx, system-log-daemon, monit, sqlite3
 Description: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
  Fail2ban monitors log files (e.g. /var/log/auth.log,