diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 Package: python3-swh.storage.listener
 Architecture: all
-Depends: python3-swh.journal,
+Depends: python3-swh.journal (>= 0.0.2~),
          python3-kafka (>= 1.3.1~),
          python3-swh.storage (= ${binary:Version}),
          ${misc:Depends},
diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
--- a/requirements-swh.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 swh.model >= 0.0.14
 swh.objstorage >= 0.0.17
 swh.scheduler >= 0.0.11
+swh.journal >= 0.0.2