diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index df98166ed6..d87e34deec 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Uploaders: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>, Laure
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                desktop-file-utils <!nocheck>,
                dh-sequence-gnome,
-               gegl (>= 0.4.26),
+               gegl (>= 0.4.30),
                gettext,
                glib-networking,
                gtk-doc-tools (>= 1.0),
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                libexif-dev (>= 0.6.15),
                libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.2),
                libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.12.4),
-               libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.26),
+               libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.30),
                libgexiv2-dev (>= 0.10.6),
                libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.56.2),
                libglib2.0-doc,
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Architecture: any
 Section: libdevel
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
-         libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.26),
+         libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.30),
          libgimp2.0 (= ${binary:Version}),
          libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.12.5),
          pkg-config
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index ab360b24a2..b776af92cb 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Uploaders: @GNOME_TEAM@, Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                desktop-file-utils <!nocheck>,
                dh-sequence-gnome,
-               gegl (>= 0.4.26),
+               gegl (>= 0.4.30),
                gettext,
                glib-networking,
                gtk-doc-tools (>= 1.0),
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                libexif-dev (>= 0.6.15),
                libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.2),
                libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.12.4),
-               libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.26),
+               libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.30),
                libgexiv2-dev (>= 0.10.6),
                libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.56.2),
                libglib2.0-doc,
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Architecture: any
 Section: libdevel
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
-         libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.26),
+         libgegl-dev (>= 0.4.30),
          libgimp2.0 (= ${binary:Version}),
          libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.12.5),
          pkg-config