diff --git a/debian/nginx.control.in b/debian/nginx.control.in
index 31a0360..56c0f27 100644
--- a/debian/nginx.control.in
+++ b/debian/nginx.control.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 Package: nginx
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, lsb-base, adduser
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), adduser
 Provides: httpd
 Description: high performance web server
  nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as