diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 16c0b234..92fbc5b2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ llvm-toolchain-snapshot (1:18~++20230921012857+4cf8da94198d-1~exp1) UNRELEASED;
   * Disable the clc and wasm builds when not building binary indep packages.
   * Limit the parallel links to 2 on riscv64.
   * d/rules: Be less noisy when building without grpc.
+  * Build-depend on libncurses-dev instead of libncurses5-dev.
 
  -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Sun, 08 Oct 2023 08:10:51 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fc98ce3f..07cac424 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10.0), cmake, ninja-build,
     libelf-dev,
     libffi-dev,
     lsb-release, patchutils, diffstat, xz-utils, python3-dev,
-    libedit-dev, libncurses5-dev, swig, python3-six, python3-sphinx (>= 1.3.6),
+    libedit-dev, libncurses-dev, swig, python3-six, python3-sphinx (>= 1.3.6),
     binutils-dev,
     libxml2-dev,
     libjsoncpp-dev, pkg-config,
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 9e13f804..80e8987f 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10.0), cmake, ninja-build,
     libelf-dev,
     libffi-dev,
     lsb-release, patchutils, diffstat, xz-utils, python3-dev,
-    libedit-dev, libncurses5-dev, swig, python3-six, python3-sphinx (>= 1.3.6),
+    libedit-dev, libncurses-dev, swig, python3-six, python3-sphinx (>= 1.3.6),
     binutils-dev,
     libxml2-dev,
     libjsoncpp-dev, pkg-config,