diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e8097f6..6b3ca48 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/frei0r.git
 Homepage: http://www.piksel.org/frei0r
 Build-Depends: cdbs,
- debhelper (>> 5.0.0),
+ debhelper,
  libtool,
  automake,
  autoconf,
  pkg-config,
  libcv-dev,
- libgavl-dev (>= 1.1.0),
+ libgavl-dev,
  libcvaux-dev,
  libhighgui-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.3