diff --git a/build.dsc b/build.dsc
index 373d82f7..4e59e3ad 100644
--- a/build.dsc
+++ b/build.dsc
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ Binary: build
 Maintainer: Adrian Schroeter <adrian@suse.de>
 Architecture: all
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), cpio
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4)
 
diff --git a/debian.control b/debian.control
index 4823cbe1..9da92c26 100644
--- a/debian.control
+++ b/debian.control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
 Package: obs-build
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${perl:Depends}, rpm
+Depends: ${perl:Depends}, rpm, cpio
 Recommends: rpm2cpio
 Conflicts: build
 Replaces: build