diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c0681af..8b39e81 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: BeeGFS Maintainers <packages@beegfs.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12.0.0), lsb-release, librdmacm-dev, libibverbs-dev, kmod,
                dkms (<= 3.0.0) | dh-dkms (>=3.0.0), pkg-config, zlib1g-dev, libnl-3-dev,
-               libnl-route-3-dev, libcurl-dev
+               libnl-route-3-dev, libcurl-dev, libblkid-dev | e2fsprogs-dev
 Standards-Version: 4.1.4.1