diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f075824..ab76b4f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Vcs-Git: git://git.debian-maintainers.org/git/lzip/plzip.git
 
 Package: plzip
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Description: parallel data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm
  Plzip is a parallel version of the lzip data compressor. Currently only
  compression is performed in parallel. Parallel decompression is planned to be