diff --git a/debian.master/control.stub.in b/debian.master/control.stub.in
index 74e4130f4b94..9529976122f7 100644
--- a/debian.master/control.stub.in
+++ b/debian.master/control.stub.in
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Build-Depends-Indep:
  bzip2 <!stage1>,
  sharutils <!stage1>,
  asciidoc <!stage1>,
+ python3-dev <!stage1>,
  python3-sphinx <!stage1>,
  python3-sphinx-rtd-theme <!stage1>,
  fontconfig <!stage1>,