diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 25093fe..c5b64d4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Arnaud Rebillout <arnaud.rebillout@collabora.com>,
            Tim Potter <tpot@hpe.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~),
                dh-golang (>= 1.31),
                golang-any,
                golang-gopkg-yaml.v2-dev