diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5205ed749..db86aa909 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Build-Depends-Indep: dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0), libxml-simple-perl,
   libtext-markdown-perl | markdown, 
   libtimedate-perl, libhtml-template-perl,
   libhtml-scrubber-perl, wdg-html-validator,
-  libhtml-parser-perl, liburi-perl, perlmagick
+  libhtml-parser-perl, liburi-perl, perlmagick, po4a
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
 Uploaders: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.8.1