diff --git a/xCAT-buildkit/debian/control b/xCAT-buildkit/debian/control
index f6abab1c3..dfe2c644d 100644
--- a/xCAT-buildkit/debian/control
+++ b/xCAT-buildkit/debian/control
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
 Package: xcat-buildkit
 Architecture: all
-Depends: dpkg-dev, devscripts
+Depends: dpkg-dev, devscripts, debhelper
 Description: xCAT-buildkit provides the buildkit tool and sample kit files to build an xCAT kit.