diff --git a/packaging/debian/control b/packaging/debian/control
index cf3713ac1e1..8025394bf4f 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Răzvan Crainea <razvan@opensips.org>
 Build-Depends: bison,
                debhelper (>= 9),
                default-libmysqlclient-dev | libmysqlclient-dev,
-               dh-systemd (>= 1.5),
+               debhelper (>= 9.20160709) | dh-systemd (>= 1.5),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1.1),
                flex,
                libconfuse-dev,