diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a04a735..218c7f8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Uploaders: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>,
            Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org>,
            Aurélien COUDERC <zecoucou@free.fr>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), librsvg2-bin
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.1.3
 Homepage: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-desktop-team/desktop-base