diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e6aa58e0b..d7d6d4a18 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ Section: shells
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: ridiculous_fish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>
 Uploaders: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20151004), libncurses5-dev, cmake (>= 3.2.0), gettext,
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20151004), libncurses5-dev, cmake (>= 3.5.0), gettext, libpcre2-dev
 # Test dependencies
  locales-all, python3
-# When libpcre2-dev is available on all supported Debian versions, add a dependency on that.
 Standards-Version: 4.1.5
 Homepage: https://fishshell.com/
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell.git