diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7c43ebe03e..5b373ecc0a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
  ruby-webpack-rails (>= 0.9.10~),
 # Many node modules are still in NEW, some are yet to be packaged
 # so we use yarn to downlod those and hence gitlab is in contrib
- yarnpkg,
+ yarnpkg (>= 1.19~),
  ruby-rack-proxy (>= 0.6~),
 #
  ruby-sassc-rails (>= 2.1~),