diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bca5e9a..7eea6cd 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 Package: libmawk-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libmawk1 (= ${binary:Version})
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libmawk1 (>= ${binary:Version})
 Description: embeddable mawk lib
  Libmawk is a fork of the popular awk implementation mawk, and aims to be
  the lightweight script language programmers embed in their application.