diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 172220fb..1a9d826e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.
 Uploaders: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                dh-sequence-gnome,
-               gnome-pkg-tools,
                meson (>= 0.44.0),
                sassc
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 37bfc8bd..3805449e 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.
 Uploaders: @GNOME_TEAM@
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
                dh-sequence-gnome,
-               gnome-pkg-tools,
                meson (>= 0.44.0),
                sassc
 Rules-Requires-Root: no