diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 30ba070e..1efcff75 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Section: gnome
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20160403~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
                gnome-common,
                gnome-pkg-tools,
                libgnome-desktop-3-dev (>= 3.2.0),
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index d9f1b854..b83e8406 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: gnome
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: @GNOME_TEAM@
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20160403~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
                gnome-common,
                gnome-pkg-tools,
                libgnome-desktop-3-dev (>= 3.2.0),