diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 63b96917..060e7757 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: tvheadend
 Section: video
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Andreas Öman <andreas@lonelycoder.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), pkg-config, libavahi-client-dev, libssl-dev, zlib1g-dev, wget
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), pkg-config, libavahi-client-dev, libssl-dev, zlib1g-dev, wget, bzip2
 Standards-Version: 3.7.3
 
 Package: tvheadend