diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 15a6fcb..7b5b2ca 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
-         golang-go
+         golang-go | gccgo
 Description: Proper URL escaping as per RFC3986 for Go
  Package urlesc implements query escaping as per RFC 3986
  for the Go Programming Language.