diff --git a/nfd/debian/control b/nfd/debian/control
index badd4f3..b625e26 100644
--- a/nfd/debian/control
+++ b/nfd/debian/control
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 Source: nfd
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0),
- dh-systemd (>= 1.5),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20160709),
  python3 (>= 3.5.0),
  pkg-config (>= 0.26),
  libndn-cxx-dev (>= 0.8.0),