diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8cedb1a..1840e05 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: options
 Maintainer: Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@guh.io>
 Build-depends: libboblight-dev,
                debhelper (>= 0.0.0),
-               libnymea1-dev,
+               libnymea1-dev (>= 0.17),
                libnymea-mqtt-dev,
                libqt5serialport5-dev,
                libqt5websockets5-dev,