diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1c7dc7e..87efe55 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  libpcre2-dev,
  libpng-dev,
  libssl-dev (>= 0.9.8g),
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.3.0
 Homepage: http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/sk-guest/libapache2-mod-qos.git