diff --git a/files/debs/swift b/files/debs/swift
index b32b43985a..0089d27fee 100644
--- a/files/debs/swift
+++ b/files/debs/swift
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 curl
+make
 memcached
 # NOTE python-nose only exists because of swift functional job, we should probably
 # figure out a more consistent way of installing this from test-requirements.txt instead