diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1acb725b47be33c510d9268d2541cee8f56640f7..af2985b2b1767603460f55d6ca806b7ab4aefedc 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 fastapi (0.88.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release
+  * debian/control
+    - bump httpx b-d to >= 0.23.1, needed for python 3.11 compatibility;
+      Closes: #1025242
 
- -- Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>  Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:17:30 -0500
+ -- Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>  Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:56:09 -0500
 
 fastapi (0.85.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9ba6a33bb129e0d213afd55d425f42940e264cef..6f6789f9542013a2b2a18d248bd661f9acbb9db6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
                python3-email-validator <!nocheck>,
                python3-flask <!nocheck>,
                python3-hatchling,
-               python3-httpx <!nocheck>,
+               python3-httpx (>= 0.23.1) <!nocheck>,
                python3-multipart <!nocheck>,
                python3-peewee <!nocheck>,
                python3-pydantic (>= 1.8.2) <!nocheck>,