diff --git a/debian-devel/control b/debian-devel/control
index 04fc76a41..cc7685a70 100644
--- a/debian-devel/control
+++ b/debian-devel/control
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Build-Depends:
     tcl8.6-dev,
     guile-2.0-dev,
     libv8-dev [amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel],
-    php7.1-dev, libphp7.1-embed,
+    php7.1-dev, libphp7.1-embed, libxml2-dev,
     libcurl4-gnutls-dev,
     libgcrypt20-dev,
     libgnutls28-dev,
diff --git a/debian-stable/control b/debian-stable/control
index 68a501262..2829be49b 100644
--- a/debian-stable/control
+++ b/debian-stable/control
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Build-Depends:
     tcl8.6-dev,
     guile-2.0-dev,
     libv8-dev [amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel],
-    php7.1-dev, libphp7.1-embed,
+    php7.1-dev, libphp7.1-embed, libxml2-dev,
     libcurl4-gnutls-dev,
     libgcrypt20-dev,
     libgnutls28-dev,