diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4ed0d29a..4af7940e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ llvm-toolchain-snapshot (1:14~++20220116120030+696f9706f34d-1~exp1) UNRELEASED;
     debian/patches/use-scan-build-runtimes.diff
   * Python 2 => 3 to unbreak the 'scanbuild_py_makefile.txt' test
   * Enable CLANG_DEFAULT_PIE_ON_LINUX
+  * Lower the debhelper dep to 10 for debian stretch
 
   [ Samuel Thibault ]
   * Explicitly link against -latomic on hurd-i386 as well.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0e45a998..e0b72b1a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 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 (>= 11.0), cmake, ninja-build,
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10.0), cmake, ninja-build,
     chrpath, texinfo, sharutils,
     libelf-dev,
     libffi-dev,