diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index efa607722311e2156e190cccc4816997111fc00f..83c07fa7a5652c891c2883d34aa759369a19c47d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  debhelper-compat (= 12),
  docbook-xsl,
  libgcrypt20-dev,
- libxml2-dev (>= 2.6.27),
+ libxml2-dev,
  perl:any,
  pkg-config,
  rename,
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Multi-Arch: same
 Provides:
  libxslt-dev,
 Depends:
- libxml2-dev (>= 2.6.26),
+ libxml2-dev,
  libxslt1.1 (= ${binary:Version}),
  ${misc:Depends},
 Description: XSLT 1.0 processing library - development kit