diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index eb71759daf..e5d6bce9ec 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ gtk+3.0 (3.21.5-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Change Build-Depends on dbus-x11 to dbus. The use of dbus-launch has been
     removed upstream so having only dbus installed is sufficient to run the
     test-suite. (Closes: #835891)
+  * Add dbus to autopkgtest dependencies to ensure machine-id is properly
+    setup.
 
  -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:05:43 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/tests/control b/debian/tests/control
index caf8188766..43ae60469c 100644
--- a/debian/tests/control
+++ b/debian/tests/control
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 Tests: build python3-gi
-Depends: libgtk-3-dev, build-essential, xauth, xvfb, python3-gi, gir1.2-gtk-3.0
+Depends: libgtk-3-dev, build-essential, xauth, xvfb, python3-gi, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, dbus