diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 92cf18d..4fc05df 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ qt6-base (6.2.2+dfsg-6) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     a memory leak in QFileSystemEngine::canonicalName() (caused by patch
     upstream_Avoid-a-stack-buffer-when-not-needed.patch); patch
     upstream_QFileSystemEngine-canonicalName-Unix-clean-up-contro.patch.
+  * Replace the libmariadb-dev-compat build dependency with
+    default-libmysqlclient-dev: other than aligning with what is used for
+    qt5-base, it represents better "the default MySQL client library" in Debian.
 
  -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>  Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:38:19 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4309bcf..93f94bc 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Patrick Franz <deltaone@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: cmake (>= 3.18~),
                debhelper-compat (= 13),
+               default-libmysqlclient-dev,
                dh-exec,
                firebird-dev [kfreebsd-any linux-any],
                libatspi2.0-dev,
@@ -27,7 +28,6 @@ Build-Depends: cmake (>= 3.18~),
                libjpeg-dev,
                libkrb5-dev,
                liblttng-ust-dev [linux-any],
-               libmariadb-dev-compat,
                libmd4c-dev,
                libmd4c-html0-dev,
                libmtdev-dev [linux-any],