diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d08951c2..a46e391b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Uploaders:
  David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
 Build-Conflicts: ruby1.8, gdb-minimal, gdb [s390x ia64 armel ppc64el mips mipsel mips64el]
 Build-Depends:
+ dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.14),
  debhelper (>= 9),
  pkg-config,
  libxapian-dev,