diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ca3c4681..caa757a5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Maintainer: Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz@puri.sm>
 Build-Depends:
  cargo,
  debhelper (>= 10),
- meson (>=0.43.0),
+ meson (>=0.51.0),
+ ninja-build,
  pkg-config,
  libglib2.0-dev,
  libgtk-3-dev,