diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 35fe3dd63c..84f2967312 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
  bzip2,
  ucf,
  gitlab-workhorse (>= 8.18~),
- ruby-rails (>= 2:6.0.2~),
+ ruby-rails (>= 2:6.0.2.1+dfsg-3~),
  ruby-bootsnap (>= 1.4~),
  ruby-nakayoshi-fork (>= 0.0.4~),
  ruby-responders (>= 3.0~),
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
 # The 2.0.6 version of rack requires monkeypatch to be present in
 # `config.ru`. This can be removed once a new update for Rack
 # is available that contains https://github.com/rack/rack/pull/1201
- ruby-rack (>= 2.0.7~),
+ ruby-rack (>= 2.1~),
  unicorn (>= 5.4~),
    ruby-kgio (>= 2.11.2~),
  ruby-unicorn-worker-killer (>= 0.4.4~),