diff --git a/packaging/debian/debian/control b/packaging/debian/debian/control
index 0f5162b7e132ba1e1ade4f305ed3b674086ee627..02fda394b1a9af39d5183cbc58568cf7420117cb 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Mathias Ertl <apt-repository@fsinf.at>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), libpurple-dev, libswiften-dev,
  libprotobuf-dev, libmysqlclient-dev, liblog4cxx10-dev, protobuf-compiler,
- libpopt-dev, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libpqxx3-dev, cmake, libevent-dev, libboost-all-dev,
+ libpopt-dev, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libpqxx3-dev, cmake, libev-libevent-dev | libevent-dev, libboost-all-dev,
  libqt4-dev, libidn11-dev, libxml2-dev, libavahi-client-dev, libavahi-common-dev,
  libcurl4-openssl-dev, libcommuni-dev, libsqlite3-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6