INSTALL      | 4 ++--
 Makefile.PL  | 2 +-
 ci/deps.perl | 5 ++---

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e93731f155d7b9ec3754dffa24dfb52207564216..eb939a59d596c0f20e7f03f931791b4337b9dee5 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@
 * MTA - postfix is recommended (for public-inbox-mda)
 * SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd)   (for public-inbox-watch/public-inbox-mda)
 
-Beyond that, there is one non-standard Perl module required:
+Beyond that, there is one non-standard Perl package required:
 
-* URI::Escape                      deb: liburi-perl
+* URI                              deb: liburi-perl
                                    pkg: p5-URI
                                    rpm: perl-URI
                                    (for HTML/Atom generation)
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index bfabb171502a0bf5814ea6529f9acd80ab72970a..1e935012e3751c5838bbd30c080d19b2fd4beed5 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 		# Plack is needed for public-inbox-httpd and PublicInbox::WWW
 		# 'Plack' => 0,
 
-		'URI::Escape' => 0,
+		'URI' => 0,
 
 		# We have more test dependencies, but do not force
 		# users to install them.  See INSTALL
diff --git a/ci/deps.perl b/ci/deps.perl
index 643e86c0563a1895f7b981cc861b8bf395c79427..a797911a7a57d0c7df5ba4d6d8a289dea652d648 100755
--- a/ci/deps.perl
+++ b/ci/deps.perl
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 # package profiles
 my $profiles = {
 	# the smallest possible profile for testing
-	# TODO: trim URI::Escape from this, maybe
 	essential => [ qw(
 		git
 		perl
@@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ 		Digest::SHA
 		Encode
 		ExtUtils::MakeMaker
 		IO::Compress::Gzip
-		URI::Escape
+		URI
 		), @test_essential ],
 
 	# everything optional for normal use
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ 		deb => 'libplack-perl',
 		pkg => 'p5-Plack',
 		rpm => 'perl-Plack-Test',
 	},
-	'URI::Escape' => {
+	'URI' => {
 		deb => 'liburi-perl',
 		pkg => 'p5-URI',
 		rpm => 'perl-URI',