diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2ae5265..7f4ec62 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
 Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.22.5),
  cmake,
  debhelper-compat (= 13),
+ debhelper (>= 13.14~),
  dh-python,
  libdbus-1-dev,
  libjson-c-dev,