diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 24ca955dfa..0c94aa1718 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
 # Markdown and HTML processing
  ruby-html-pipeline (>= 2.14.3~),
  ruby-task-list (>= 2.3.1~),
- ruby-gitlab-markup,
+ ruby-gitlab-markup (>= 1.9~),
  ruby-github-markup (>= 1.7~),
  ruby-commonmarker (>= 0.23.6~),
  ruby-kramdown (>= 2.3.1~),