diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index afa157e..b277352 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Homepage: http://www.mate-desktop.org/
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mate/mate-media.git;a=summary
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-mate/mate-media.git
 Build-Depends: cdbs,
-               debhelper (>= 8),
+               debhelper (>= 9),
                intltool,
                libglib2.0-dev,
                libgtk2.0-dev,