diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 74f3177..ee6e68d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ relational (2.6-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Bump compat to 10
   * New upstream release
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.0.1
+  * Rules-Requires-Root: no
 
  -- Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>  Wed, 02 May 2018 22:09:48 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 78ca5b1..9fbcc96 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), python3, dh-python, python3-xtermcolor, pyqt5-
 Standards-Version: 4.0.1
 X-Python3-Version: >= 3.4
 Homepage: http://ltworf.github.io/relational/
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 
 Package: python3-relational
 Architecture: all