diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 656c28958a..4141fe5949 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
 # Background jobs
  ruby-sidekiq (>= 5.2.7~),
  ruby-sidekiq-cron (>= 1.0~),
- ruby-redis-namespace (>= 1.6~),
+ ruby-redis-namespace (>= 1.7~),
  ruby-gitlab-sidekiq-fetcher (>= 0.6.1~),
 # Cron Parser
  ruby-fugit (>= 1.2.1~),