diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 823355e1..6d3c9059 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
-               dh-sequence-gnome,
+               dh-sequence-gnome (>= 0.22),
                meson (>= 0.44.0)
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 830d2c48..dbf3b6fa 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: @GNOME_TEAM@
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
-               dh-sequence-gnome,
+               dh-sequence-gnome (>= 0.22),
                meson (>= 0.44.0)
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1