diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 08a0436a..fdf68069 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ fail2ban (0.10.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
     - IPv6 support (Closes: #881648, #470417)
   * A number of new patches added to address failing tests from
     https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/pull/2025
-  * Boosted policy to 4.1.3
+  * debian/control
+    - Boosted policy to 4.1.3
+    - sqlite3 is now needed for some tests, thus added to build-depends
+      and suggests
 
   [ Viktor Szépe ]
   * Install provided config for monit under /etc/monit/conf-available
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4a3e3da6..77b32cb3 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  , debhelper (>= 9.20160709) | dh-systemd
  , python3
  , python3-pyinotify
+ , sqlite3
 Homepage: http://www.fail2ban.org
 Vcs-Git: git://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban.git -b debian
 Vcs-Browser: http://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ Package: fail2ban
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>=2.0-7)
 Recommends: python, iptables, whois, python3-pyinotify, python3-systemd
-Suggests: mailx, system-log-daemon, monit
+Suggests: mailx, system-log-daemon, monit, sqlite3
 Description: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
  Fail2ban monitors log files (e.g. /var/log/auth.log,
  /var/log/apache/access.log) and temporarily or persistently bans