diff --git a/REQUIREMENTS b/REQUIREMENTS
index 140e8245c0..ee00920be4 100644
--- a/REQUIREMENTS
+++ b/REQUIREMENTS
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Notes:          This dependency is entirely optional, the video4linux plugin
 
 Package:        JPEG library
 Plugins:        jpeg (jpegenc, jpegdec, smokeenc, smokedec)
-DebianPackage:  libjpeg-dev
+DebianPackage:  libjpeg62-turbo-dev
 URL:            http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/
                 or http://www.ijg.org/ for the IJG version
 
diff --git a/ext/jpeg/meson.build b/ext/jpeg/meson.build
index 2222491dfb..817bdbe915 100644
--- a/ext/jpeg/meson.build
+++ b/ext/jpeg/meson.build
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ jpeg_sources = [
   'gstjpegdec.c',
 ]
 
-jpeglib = cc.find_library('jpeg', required : get_option('jpeg'))
+jpeglib = dependency('libjpeg', required : get_option('jpeg'))
 
 if jpeglib.found()
   gstjpeg = library('gstjpeg',