diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6e28bf9..188f8af 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Build-Depends: autotools-dev,
                libspice-server-dev (>= 0.14.0~),
                libusb-1.0-0-dev (>= 1.0.17-1),
                libusbredirparser-dev (>= 0.6-2),
+               python3-sphinx,
                quilt,
                texi2html,
                texinfo,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 1c0ddb5..30868b0 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ config.status: configure
 	--disable-strip \
 	--disable-xen \
 	--enable-curl \
+	--enable-docs \
 	--enable-glusterfs \
 	--enable-gnutls \
 	--enable-jemalloc \