diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 020b67938..75d3a0875 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10~),
                liblzma-dev,
                libncurses5-dev,
                librhash-dev,
-               libuv1-dev,
+               libuv1-dev (>= 1.10),
                procps [!hurd-any],
                python3-sphinx,
                qtbase5-dev <!stage1>,