diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7bb92560..63b6b963 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ 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 (>= 0.53.0),
                sassc
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index f080c088..d4639956 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ 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 (>= 0.53.0),
                sassc
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1