diff --git a/repo-ng/debian/control b/repo-ng/debian/control
index 6167d94..a27892b 100644
--- a/repo-ng/debian/control
+++ b/repo-ng/debian/control
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0),
+ dh-systemd (>= 1.5),
  python (>= 2.7.0),
  pkg-config (>= 0.26),
  ndn-cxx-dev (>= 0.3.0~rc0.2)