diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b4d0441..20d05e0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.
 Uploaders:
  Michael Fladischer <fladi@debian.org>,
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 11),
+ debhelper (>= 10),
  dh-python,
  python-all,
  python-pytest-cov,