diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 819e365f0..b7234c8f1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
-Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:3.3), debhelper (>= 4), kernel-package (>= 9.000), module-init-tools, dpkg-dev (>= 1.10.23), debian-utils (>= 1.6), bzip2, console-tools, sparc-utils [sparc]
+Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:3.3), debhelper (>= 4), kernel-package (>= 9.000), module-init-tools, dpkg-dev (>= 1.10.23), debianutils (>= 1.6), bzip2, console-tools, sparc-utils [sparc]
 Build-Depends-Indep: bzip2, debhelper (>= 4), docbook-utils, gs, kernel-package (>= 9.000), transfig
 
 Package: linux-source-2.6.12