diff --git a/changelog.html b/changelog.html
index f65610ff0625225e60b76e615c760790764d2428..1a6e141749b824f277934fb110b6308e0da45384 100644
--- a/changelog.html
+++ b/changelog.html
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ Upcoming changes</a>
   <li class=bug>
     Debian package no longer messes around with the file permissions
     (<a href="http://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-4047">issue 4047</a>)
+  <li class=bug>
+    Fixed a JVM dependency in debian package so that it can run with OpenJDK
+    (<a href="http://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-8159">issue 8159</a>)
 </ul>
 </div><!--=TRUNK-END=-->
 
diff --git a/debian/debian/control b/debian/debian/control
index 8b511c4e58d3bf92bd9b3ede03c47b50409a45ba..bb5af925b2556f7ec6651ab1e9c0e2a758f76799 100644
--- a/debian/debian/control
+++ b/debian/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Homepage: https://jenkins-ci.org/
 
 Package: jenkins
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, daemon, adduser, java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime, psmisc
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, daemon, adduser, psmisc, default-jre
 Conflicts: hudson
 Replaces: hudson
 Description: Continuous integration system written in Java