diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 39a5cb2762ea9d9aad6055980651c1c5cbed4fa2..e8af24992e0035dbcd61fb284dad6317f35e930e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Apertis package maintainers <packagers@lists.apertis.org>
 Build-Depends:
   autoconf-archive,
-  autotools-dev ,
   debhelper-compat (= 13),
   libglib2.0-dev,
   libgirepository1.0-dev (>= 1.30),