diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8e19eca46..2ad8af203 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Maintainer: Debian CMake Team <pkg-cmake-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@debian.org>,
            Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>,
            Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20141010),
-               dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.14),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20141010~),
+               dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.14~),
                libarchive-dev (>= 2.8.0),
                libbz2-dev,
                libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl-ssl-dev,