diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c83809aa2..c5d0c7475 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ grub2 (2.00+20131127-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Break lupin-support (<< 0.55) due to the rewrite of grub-install in C.
   * Remove build-dependency on autogen, no longer needed.
   * Compress GRUB files on grub-rescue-floppy.img using xz.
+  * Build-depend on wamerican, newly required by the test suite.
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:18:57 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 70454efe4..17ace35de 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.4.2~),
  liblzma-dev,
  dosfstools [amd64],
  mtools [amd64],
+ wamerican,
 Build-Conflicts: autoconf2.13, libzfs-dev, libnvpair-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/