diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 09bb347..e191a16 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
 Build-Depends:
  debhelper-compat (= 13),
- dh-python,
+ dh-sequence-python3,
  python3,
  python3-setuptools,
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index f645edf..1118c5f 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 export PYBUILD_NAME=litecli
 
 %:
-	dh ${@} --buildsystem=pybuild --with python3
+	dh ${@} --buildsystem=pybuild
 
 override_dh_auto_test:
 	# disabled, doesn't work yet