diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 27404076..c518a994 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Description: check websites and HTML documents for broken links
  package.
 
 Package: linkchecker-gui
+Priority: extra
 Architecture: all
 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Depends: linkchecker, python-qt4 (>= 4.5), libqt4-sql-sqlite,