diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 85370a30..695ec3a6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Uploaders: Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
catch2,
cmake,
- libarmadillo-dev (>= 1:6.5), liblapack-dev
+ libarmadillo-dev, liblapack-dev
Standards-Version: 4.6.0
Rules-Requires-Root: no
Homepage: https://www.ensmallen.org/
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/ensmallen
Package: libensmallen-dev
Section: libdevel
Architecture: any
-Depends: libarmadillo-dev (>= 1:6.5), liblapack-dev, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: libarmadillo-dev, liblapack-dev, ${misc:Depends}
Description: C++ header-only library for mathematical optimization
Ensmallen provides a simple set of abstractions for writing an objective
function to optimize. It also provides a large set of standard and cutting-edge
