diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f00ecb2..01faf51 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper
 Standards-Version: 3.5.6
 
 Package: libcomedi-dev
-Section: devel
+Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libcomedi0 (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev
 Description: Development library for Comedi