diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b33397d8..4fad6554 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10.5.1),
                libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.26.0),
                libgranite-7-dev,
                libgtk-4-dev,
-               meson,
+               meson (>= 0.57.0),
                sassc,
                valac (>= 0.22)
 Standards-Version: 4.1.1