diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 228e793cba3903bd6c086c232e972da131161f35..1346f09782fd55a3fa1abf41be79b4fcd09bd290 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+brltty (5.5-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * control: Avoid the ALSA PCM package on non-Linux.
+
+ -- Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:50:01 +0100
+
 brltty (5.5-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * initramfs/hooks/brltty.in, initramfs/scripts/init-premount/brltty: Update
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 26999d84f5e3a9a31497f4556d639959ee0d8a33..e01ef911b9ac39a902ff6e196974b8647e2a316f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20160709), dh-lisp, dh-python, dh-strip-nondeterm
                libbluetooth-dev [linux-any],
                libspeechd-dev,
                libespeak-ng-libespeak-dev
-Build-Conflicts: libatspi-dev
+Build-Conflicts: libatspi-dev,
+                 libasound2-dev [!linux-any]
 Standards-Version: 4.1.1
 X-Python-Version: >= 2.7
 X-Python3-Version: >= 3.2