diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d43565e8..5d1e0608 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Maintainer: FingerForce Team <fingerforce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Ulises Vitulli <dererk@debian.org>,
            Marco Trevisan <marco@ubuntu.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
+               gir1.2-gobject-2.0-dev <!nogir>,
+               gir1.2-gio-2.0-dev <!nogir>,
                gobject-introspection,
                gtk-doc-tools,
                libcairo-dev <!nocheck>,