diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9294f7d4..6e60288b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Maintainer: LLVM Packaging Team <pkg-llvm-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>, Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0), cmake, ninja-build,
     chrpath, texinfo, sharutils,
+    libelf-dev,
     libffi-dev,
     lsb-release, patchutils, diffstat, xz-utils, python3-dev,
     libedit-dev, libncurses5-dev, swig, python3-six, python3-sphinx (>= 1.3.6),