diff --git a/ndn-cxx/debian/control b/ndn-cxx/debian/control
index 39e2066..a4b4d22 100644
--- a/ndn-cxx/debian/control
+++ b/ndn-cxx/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0),
- python3 (>= 3.6.0),
+ python3 (>= 3.8),
  pkg-config (>= 0.29),
  libboost-all-dev (>= 1.65.1),
  libsqlite3-dev (>= 3.22.0),