diff --git a/debian/dist/Debian/control b/debian/dist/Debian/control
index 2ed30bb3f9c..8114ee683ba 100644
--- a/debian/dist/Debian/control
+++ b/debian/dist/Debian/control
@@ -245,7 +245,8 @@ Description: MariaDB database regression test suite (metapackage depending on th
 Package: mariadb-connect-engine-10.0
 Section: database
 Architecture: any
-Depends: mariadb-server-10.0, unixODBC-dev, libxml2-dev
+Depends: mariadb-server-10.0, unixODBC, libxml2
+Build-depends: mariadb-server-10.0, unixODBC-dev, libxml2-dev
 Description: Connect storage engine for MariaDB
  Connect engine supports a number of file formats (dbf, xml, txt, bin, etc),
  connections to ODBC tables and remote MySQL tables, as well as a number of
diff --git a/debian/dist/Ubuntu/control b/debian/dist/Ubuntu/control
index 545c780d786..16236653509 100644
--- a/debian/dist/Ubuntu/control
+++ b/debian/dist/Ubuntu/control
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ Description: MariaDB database regression test suite (metapackage depending on th
 Package: mariadb-connect-engine-10.0
 Section: database
 Architecture: any
-Depends: mariadb-server-10.0, unixODBC-dev, libxml2-dev
+Depends: mariadb-server-10.0, unixODBC, libxml2
+Build-depends: mariadb-server-10.0, unixODBC-dev, libxml2-dev
 Description: Connect storage engine for MariaDB
  Connect engine supports a number of file formats (dbf, xml, txt, bin, etc),
  connections to ODBC tables and remote MySQL tables, as well as a number of