diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index be01a29f4..36d6d71f0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ linux (4.18.5-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * aufs: Update support patchset to aufs4.18-20180827 (no functional change)
   * netfilter: Enable NF_TABLES_SET as module, replacing the multiple set
     type modules that were enabled before 4.18
+  * [powerpc,powerpcspe,ppc64] Build-Depend on updated kernel-wedge to fix
+    broken symlinks in kernel-image udeb
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:22:41 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.source.in b/debian/templates/control.source.in
index 8dbba4685..941a4a728 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.source.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.source.in
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Build-Depends:
 Build-Depends-Arch:
 # used by debian/rules.real to build udebs
  kernel-wedge (>= 2.93~) <!stage1>,
+ kernel-wedge (>= 2.98~) [powerpc powerpcspe ppc64] <!stage1>,
 # used by kernel-wedge (only on Linux, thus not declared as a dependency)
  kmod <!stage1>,
 # used by upstream to build include/generated/timeconst.h