diff --git a/source/debian/control b/source/debian/control
index a9ff8f2157f7a8e195ff23ab0e2028d78a7438c3..1b67b8d2fb29da87558781bfb96294bb53c27dc3 100644
--- a/source/debian/control
+++ b/source/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Section: httpd
 Package: nginx
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: amd64
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
 Description: high performance web server
  nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as
  a mail proxy server.
diff --git a/source/debian/source/format b/source/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..89ae9db8f88b823b6a7eabf55e203658739da122
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (native)