diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7ee75fa1..8b242122 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ gnome-shell-extensions (3.22.2-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Bump Standards-Version to 4.0.0
     - Explicitly depend on gnome-settings-daemon >= 3.24
     - Drop version from gnome-tweak-tool recommends
+    - Depend on gnome-session-bin instead of gnome-session (LP: #1702832)
 
  -- Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:09:33 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 86680db0..cb434c59 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          gir1.2-mutter-3.0,
          gir1.2-pango-1.0,
          gvfs (>= 1.16.0),
-         gnome-session (>= 3.8),
+         gnome-session-bin (>= 3.8),
          gnome-settings-daemon (>= 3.24)
 Recommends: gnome-tweak-tool
 Replaces: gnome-shell-common (<< 3.18)
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 018d0b7f..7feed1b8 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          gir1.2-mutter-3.0,
          gir1.2-pango-1.0,
          gvfs (>= 1.16.0),
-         gnome-session (>= 3.8),
+         gnome-session-bin (>= 3.8),
          gnome-settings-daemon (>= 3.24)
 Recommends: gnome-tweak-tool
 Replaces: gnome-shell-common (<< 3.18)