diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7c4f192c50..474d61d308 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
    ruby-ntlm (>= 0.6.1~),
  ruby-net-ldap (>= 0.17~),
 # API
- ruby-grape (>= 1.5.1~),
+ ruby-grape (>= 1.7~),
  ruby-grape-entity (>= 0.10~),
  ruby-rack-cors (>= 1.0.6~),
 # GraphQL API