diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3f92875..a3083e6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Section: libs
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), autotools-dev, autoconf, automake, libtool, dh-autoreconf
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), autotools-dev, autoconf, automake, libtool, dh-autoreconf, libdpkg-perl, git
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Homepage: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/libosmocore
 Vcs-Git: git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git