diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b045de79..7bb92560 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.
 Uploaders: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                dh-sequence-gnome (>= 0.22),
-               meson (>= 0.44.0)
+               meson (>= 0.44.0),
+               sassc
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell-extensions
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 785a8baa..f080c088 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.
 Uploaders: @GNOME_TEAM@
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                dh-sequence-gnome (>= 0.22),
-               meson (>= 0.44.0)
+               meson (>= 0.44.0),
+               sassc
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell-extensions