diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 873cb9c5..252db4b5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Source: gnome-shell-extensions
 Section: gnome
-Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>, Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <marco@ubuntu.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),