diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2c8eead5b..e3f1e020c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>=9),
                libtool,
                pkg-config,
                python-minimal,
+               libssl-dev,
                libtalloc-dev,
                libosmocore-dev,
                libosmo-sigtran-dev,