diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 80bb5b11b..dabd8b6d7 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                flex,
                pkg-config,
                libgps-dev,
-               liblua50-dev
+               liblua50-dev | liblua5.2-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 Homepage: http://olsr.org/
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/olsrd.git