diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2541151..e42644b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 Package: libxstream-java
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${maven:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${maven:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libxpp3-java
 Suggests: ${maven:OptionalDepends}
 Description: Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again
  The features of the XStream library are: