diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8ad7269c5..d82a4088f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 linux (4.13.4-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * [arm64] brcmfmac: Enable BRCMFMAC_SDIO (Closes: #877911)
+  * Update build dependencies on libbabeltrace[,-ctf}-dev (fixes FTBFS)
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:03:01 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index 1b6bb02a9..d186aba1a 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Build-Depends-Arch:
  gcc-multilib [amd64 ppc64 s390x sparc64] <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,
  libaudit-dev <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,
  libbabeltrace-dev (>= 1.5.0) <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,
- libbabeltrace-ctf-dev (>= 1.5.0) <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,
+# - libbabeltrace-ctf-dev may or may not be needed as well
+ libbabeltrace-dev (>= 1.5.3-2~) <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython> | libbabeltrace-ctf-dev (>= 1.5.0) <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,
  libdw-dev <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,
  libelf-dev <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,
  libiberty-dev <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools !nopython>,