diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e5378b03..b9f02658 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ Build-Depends:
  libdumbnet-dev, libfuse-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libgtkmm-2.4-dev,
  libicu-dev, libnotify-dev, libpam0g-dev, libprocps-dev, libx11-dev,
  libxinerama-dev, libxss-dev, libxtst-dev, dh-autoreconf, dh-systemd,
- libmspack-dev, libssl1.0-dev, libxerces-c-dev, libxml-security-c-dev
+ libmspack-dev,
+ libssl1.0-dev | libssl-dev,
+ libxerces-c-dev, libxml-security-c-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/bzed/pkg-open-vm-tools.git