diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3068ee51..2e30dc4f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Section: devel
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (=12),
+ git,
  graphviz,
  guile-2.2,
  guile-2.2-dev,