diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5631e01dab4..7e4dce1c7d5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Open Object Maintainers <open-object@lists.debian-maintainers.org>
 Uploaders: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), python-dev, quilt (>= 0.46-7)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), python, quilt (>= 0.46-7)
 Build-Depends-Indep:
  python-libxslt1, python-lxml, python-pychart, python-pydot, python-psycopg2,
  python-reportlab