diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 82b4617..ce365d1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ Description: data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (library)
 Package: liblz-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
-Depends:
- ${misc:Depends}, liblz1 (= ${binary:Version}), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, liblz1 (= ${binary:Version})
 Description: data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (development)
  The lzlib compression library provides in-memory LZMA compression and
  decompression functions, including integrity checking of the uncompressed data.