diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8e78543..c16866c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
                dh-octave,
                help2man,
                libboost-date-time-dev,
-               libboost-dev (>> 1.34.2~),
+               libboost-dev (>= 1.55),
                libboost-filesystem-dev,
                libboost-program-options-dev
 Standards-Version: 4.5.1
diff --git a/debian/patches/check-system-endianness.patch b/debian/patches/check-system-endianness.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9c1f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/check-system-endianness.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+Description: Avoid deprecated way of checking system endianness
+ According to file /usr/include/boost/predef/detail/endian_compat.h,
+ “[t]he use of BOOST_*_ENDIAN and BOOST_BYTE_ORDER is deprecated. Please
+ include <boost/predef/other/endian.h> and use BOOST_ENDIAN_*_BYTE
+ instead.”
+ .
+ This patch follows this recommendation.
+Author: Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/975443
+Forwarded: https://github.com/mbillingr/libgdf/pull/5
+Last-Update: 2020-11-25
+
+--- libgdf-0.1.3.orig/libgdf/include/GDF/Types.h
++++ libgdf-0.1.3/libgdf/include/GDF/Types.h
+@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
+ 
+ #include "Exceptions.h"
+ #include <boost/cstdint.hpp>
+-#include <boost/detail/endian.hpp>
++#include <boost/predef/other/endian.h>
+ #include <iostream>
+ 
+ namespace gdf
+@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ namespace gdf
+     template<typename T>
+     void writeLittleEndian( std::ostream &out, T item )
+     {
+-#if defined(BOOST_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
++#if defined(BOOST_ENDIAN_LITTLE_BYTE)
+         out.write( reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&item), sizeof(item) );
+-#elif defined(BOOST_BIG_ENDIAN)
++#elif defined(BOOST_ENDIAN_BIG_BYTE)
+         const char* p = reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&item) + sizeof(item)-1;
+         for( size_t i=0; i<sizeof(item); i++ )
+             out.write( p--, 1 );
+@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ namespace gdf
+     template<typename T>
+     void readLittleEndian( std::istream &in, T &item )
+     {
+-#if defined(BOOST_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
++#if defined(BOOST_ENDIAN_LITTLE_BYTE)
+         in.read( reinterpret_cast<char*>(&item), sizeof(item) );
+-#elif defined(BOOST_BIG_ENDIAN)
++#elif defined(BOOST_ENDIAN_BIG_BYTE)
+         char* p = reinterpret_cast<char*>(&item) + sizeof(item)-1;
+         for( size_t i=0; i<sizeof(item); i++ )
+     in.read( p--, 1 );
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index a29cb00..e5c8114 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 disable-werror.patch
+check-system-endianness.patch