diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3a3b75e..a211b42 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: required
 Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 4.7.2
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), debhelper (>= 13.10~)
-Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 
 Package: base-files
 Provides: base, usr-is-merged