diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 652fec6fda921dabaca4ef9e16e7da037c15c303..3d1af87a69cb3ade052cab0060e7276e0f4fc280 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Maintainer: Debian Clojure Maintainers <team+clojure@tracker.debian.org>
 Uploaders:
  Jérôme Charaoui <jerome@riseup.net>,
 Build-Depends:
- clojure,
  debhelper-compat (= 13),
  default-jdk,
  javahelper,