diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 85ab2ab..e0cf9b4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: utils
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Debian Lzip Maintainers <lzip@lists.debian-maintainers.org>
 Uploaders: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), autotools-dev, lzip, texinfo
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), autotools-dev, lzip, texinfo
 Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=lzip/lzip.git