diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f806c1b..4026253 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Uploaders: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
            Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>,
 Build-Depends: autotools-dev,
                cdbs,
-               debhelper (>= 9),
+               debhelper (>= 10),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1.1),
                gobject-introspection,
                gtk-doc-tools,