diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bf1156ff5..aafb05b27 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Live <debian-live-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), gettext (>= 0.13)
+Build-Depends-Indep: gettext (>= 0.13)
 Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 Homepage: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git