diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5332042..1e2e272 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   [ Pino Toscano ]
   * Update symbols file with the logs of buildds.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.4.0, no changes required.
+  * Remove unused ${shlibs:Depends} substvar for libkf5windowsystem-dev.
 
  -- Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>  Sat, 21 Sep 2019 07:53:56 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 63a1715..4419fff 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 Depends: libkf5windowsystem5 (= ${binary:Version}),
          qtbase5-dev (>= 5.11.0~),
          ${misc:Depends},
-         ${shlibs:Depends},
 Recommends: libkf5windowsystem-doc (= ${source:Version})
 Description: development files for kwindowsystem
  The class KWindowSystem provides information about the state of the