diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 79aeceb881e1f50c056de5830dc3fb6ae2871e11..5a90b105cb92707b9c06e4fa2e09a9c586eeb16a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ aegir-provision (1.0~rc7-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * new upstream release, dropping local patch
   * fix permissions on provision directories (#1123276)
+  * add dependency on git while we wait for upstream to fix frontend
+    packaging
 
  -- Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@koumbit.org>  Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:04:43 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4f5aaf23cd2bd0bf4f8e3eee23a91feac9e97609..4b2ca5381851523100d939a26d38edf4067ba838 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Description: mass Drupal hosting system - backend
 
 Package: aegir-hostmaster
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, drush (>= 4.3), php5-mysql, apache2, aegir-provision
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, drush (>= 4.3), php5-mysql, apache2, aegir-provision, git-core
 Description: mass Drupal hosting system - frontend
  A set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the
  problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by