diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c3dba63..f5bdb67 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,17 +9,14 @@
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                dh-autoreconf,
                autoconf-archive,
-               dh-python,
                gnome-pkg-tools,
                gobject-introspection (>= 0.9.12-4~),
                intltool (>= 0.40.0),
                libgirepository1.0-dev (>= 0.10.7-1~),
-               libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.30.0),
-               python3 (>= 3.1)
+               libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.30.0)
 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-cinnamon/cinnamon-menus.git
 Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-cinnamon/cinnamon-menus.git
-X-Python3-Version: >= 3.1
 
 Package: libcinnamon-menu-3-0
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 6f0c25a..f764331 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --parallel --with=autoreconf,python3
+	dh $@ --parallel --with=autoreconf
 
 override_dh_strip:
 	dh_strip --dbgsym-migration='libcinnamon-menu-3-0-dbg (<< 3.0.0-1~)' || dh_strip