diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ccaaf947..0efbeb33 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ libgtop2 (2.28.4-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 8.
     - Strip debian/tmp/ from .install files.
     - Bump Build-Depends on debhelper.
+  * debian/control.in:
+    - Drop obsolete versioned Build-Depends on dpkg-dev.
 
  -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:36:19 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 688e3570..eafc64b8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8),
                dh-autoreconf,
                cdbs,
                texinfo,
-               dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19),
                intltool (>= 0.35.0),
                libxt-dev,
                libgeom-dev [kfreebsd-any],
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 798bb5cd..c1506032 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8),
                dh-autoreconf,
                cdbs,
                texinfo,
-               dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19),
                intltool (>= 0.35.0),
                libxt-dev,
                libgeom-dev [kfreebsd-any],