diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d098a606d..f5624cec4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ Section: shells
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: ridiculous_fish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>
 Uploaders: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), libncurses5-dev, cmake3 (>= 3.2.0) | cmake (>= 3.2.0), gettext
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), libncurses5-dev, cmake3 (>= 3.2.0) | cmake (>= 3.2.0), gettext,
+# Test dependencies
+ expect, locales-all
 # When libpcre2-dev is available on all supported Debian versions, add a dependency on that.
 Standards-Version: 3.9.4
 Homepage: https://fishshell.com/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 7044fb86d..6c0eafbd8 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -18,6 +18,3 @@ override_dh_installdocs:
 # Consider transitioning https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage
 override_dh_strip:
 	dh_strip --dbg-package=fish-dbg
-
-# Don't run tests; they don't work until fish is installed
-override_dh_auto_test: