diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0aa8c5f6..114bdc7d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ostree (2017.8-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     download the summary and its signature when mirroring.
     libostree >= 2017.7 no longer does this. On affected flatpak versions,
     this breaks installation of new apps and runtimes system-wide.
+  * Add Build-Depends-Indep: libglib2.0-doc so gtk-doc can set up
+    cross-references
 
  -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:54:26 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 83810588..4e5d5aa0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Build-Depends:
  python-yaml <!nocheck>,
  xsltproc <!nodoc>,
  zlib1g-dev,
+Build-Depends-Indep:
+ libglib2.0-doc,
 Standards-Version: 4.0.0
 Homepage: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/
 Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/ostree.git