diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0d8bd9e939..1b2b71da5f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: GBIF Development Team <helpdesk@gbif.org>
 Uploaders: GBIF Development Team <helpdesk@gbif.org>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 11), maven, git
+ debhelper (>= 11), maven, git, openjdk-8-jdk
 Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Homepage: https://github.com/gbif/ipt
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/gbif/ipt