diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7421e9d..6f23b00 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ Build-Depends:
  pkg-config,
  python3-autopep8 <!nocheck>,
  python3-nose2 <!nocheck>,
- uuid-dev,
  uuid-runtime,
  xmlto,
  zlib1g-dev,