--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@dockes.org>
 # note: libexpat1-dev and libcurl-dev are only here because of pkg-config:
 # not directly needed for building upmpdcli
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), dh-python, dh-systemd,
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), dh-python, dh-systemd, dh-autoreconf,
                autotools-dev, python, pkg-config,
                libmpdclient-dev, libmicrohttpd-dev, 
                libupnpp4-dev, libupnp6-dev, libjsoncpp-dev,