diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 66ca99b..2d0e82e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
-               dh-golang,
+               dh-golang (>= 1.17~),
                golang-go
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: https://github.com/beorn7/perks