diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 315fed41..275b3586 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ livecd-rootfs (1.121) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   [ Oliver Grawert ]
   * instead of special casing for only one arch, base jasper vs casper
     inclusion on the IMAGETYPE variable
+  * depend on genext2fs
 
- -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:13:52 +0200
+ -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:15:28 +0200
 
 livecd-rootfs (1.120) maverick; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4668f4e9..31e54293 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/trunk
 
 Package: livecd-rootfs
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal | python, procps, squashfs-tools (>= 1:3.3-1), grep-dctrl, fdupes, lsb-release, lzma
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal | python, procps, squashfs-tools (>= 1:3.3-1), grep-dctrl, fdupes, lsb-release, lzma, genext2fs
 Suggests: partimage
 Description: construction script for the livecd rootfs
  livecd-rootfs provides the script used to create the root filesystem