diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5624dcd0dae39e90e90cbf01fbc039dc28d53992..076ab9aa55af8d0c673f1c51f91e41ec7bff90e6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers <pkg-samba-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, Noèl Köthe <noel@debian.org>, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>, Mathieu Parent <sathieu@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11),
 	dh-autoreconf,
-	autotools-dev,
 	libkeyutils-dev,
 	libcap-ng-dev,
 	libkrb5-dev,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 09d0244b2c8b7f6bbe6ee42119a5c722204615dd..e08ec209422967d687652ec5a3570230e9d6408c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --with=autotools_dev,autoreconf
+	dh $@ --with=autoreconf
 
 override_dh_auto_configure:
 	dh_auto_configure -- --enable-cifsidmap --enable-cifscreds --with-libcap-ng=auto --enable-pam --with-pamdir=/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/security