diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index dac223566..8bc82900a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                libmbedtls-dev,
                libssh2-1-dev,
                libhttp-parser-dev,
+               libpcre2-dev,
                libkrb5-dev
 Standards-Version: 4.5.0
 Homepage: https://libgit2.github.com/