diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7d97b00..ecccff6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>,
            Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-systemd
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
+               dh-systemd (>= 1.3) [linux-any] | base-files (<< 7.2ubuntu5~) [linux-any]
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-php/php-defaults.git
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-php/php-defaults.git