diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3b4e47281b..4aaa9f21bf 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Uploaders: FRRouting-dev <dev@lists.frrouting.org>,
            Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: bison,
                chrpath,
-               debhelper (>= 10~),
+               debhelper (>= 10~) | dh-systemd,
+               debhelper (>= 9.20150101~),
                flex,
                gawk,
                install-info,