diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fea08c3..ec03722 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
  Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>
 Homepage: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 11~),
+ debhelper,
  gnome-pkg-tools,
- gobject-introspection (>= 0.9.12-4~),
+ gobject-introspection,
  gtk-doc-tools (>= 1.4),
- intltool (>= 0.40.0),
+ intltool,
  libgirepository1.0-dev (>= 0.10.7-1~),
  libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.30.0),
  meson