diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b1362cd358..a6f859306f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
  ruby-acts-as-taggable-on (>= 9.0~),
 # Background jobs
  ruby-sidekiq (>= 6.2.2~),
- ruby-sidekiq-cron (>= 1.0~),
+ ruby-sidekiq-cron (>= 1.2~),
  ruby-redis-namespace (>= 1.8.1~),
  ruby-gitlab-sidekiq-fetcher (>= 0.8~),
 # Cron Parser