diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8aaf19d..821dc89 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
   * Team upload.
   * New upstream release.
+  * Check gemspec dependencies during build.
 
  -- Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:06:14 +0530
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a5e7dc8..daffe42 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -11,5 +11,7 @@
 # If you need to specify the .gemspec (eg there is more than one)
 #export DH_RUBY_GEMSPEC=gem.gemspec
 
+export GEM2DEB_TEST_RUNNER = --check-dependencies
+
 %:
 	dh $@ --buildsystem=ruby --with ruby