diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 57d7fbde..6916730e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 Source: swh-deposit
 Maintainer: Software Heritage developers <swh-devel@inria.fr>
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                dh-python,
                python3-setuptools,
                python3-all,
                python3-nose,
                python3-vcversioner,
                python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.14~),
-               python3-swh.loader.tar (>= 0.0.27~),
+               python3-swh.loader.tar (>= 0.0.26~),
                python3-django,
                python3-click,
                python3-vcversioner,
                python3-djangorestframework,
                python3-djangorestframework-xml
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-deposit/
 
 Package: python3-swh.deposit
 Architecture: all
 Depends: python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.14~),
-         python3-swh.loader.tar (>= 0.0.27~),
+         python3-swh.loader.tar (>= 0.0.26~),
          ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}
 Description: Software Heritage Deposit Server
diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
index faaa7a9f..6c95d9a8 100644
--- a/requirements-swh.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 swh.core >= 0.0.14
-swh.loader.tar >= 0.0.27
+swh.loader.tar >= 0.0.26