diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fb7f27d..3956789 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Vcs-Git: git://git.debian-maintainers.org/git/lzip/lzip.git
 
 Package: zutils
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Recommends: bzip2, lzip, xz-utils
 Description: utilities for dealing with compressed files transparently
  Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination of