diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f410fa20..e33a5b95 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                default-libmysqlclient-dev,
                default-mysql-client,
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~),
+               libsystemd-dev [linux-any],
                libevent-dev (>= 2.0.1~),
                libhiredis-dev,
                libpq-dev,