diff --git a/contrib/debian/control b/contrib/debian/control
index 2632c08..01afe33 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/control
+++ b/contrib/debian/control
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 Package: libthrift-dev
 Architecture: any
 Section: libdevel
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libthrift0
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libthrift0, libglib2.0-dev
 Description: Thrift C++ library (development headers)
  Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services
  development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to