diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d4f3c2a..ed9f014 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: plzip
 Section: utils
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), autotools-dev, liblz-dev (>= 1.0), texinfo
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), liblz-dev (>= 1.0), texinfo
 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
 Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html