diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fd9542ac..c41b3146 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                default-mysql-client,
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~),
                libsystemd-dev [linux-any],
+               pkg-config,
                libevent-dev (>= 2.0.1~),
                libhiredis-dev,
                libpq-dev,