diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1cd7ed7..8c14495 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Uploaders: Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>,
 	   Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>,
 	   Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
-Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libncurses5-dev | libncurses-dev, gettext, libtext-unidecode-perl, help2man, autotools-dev, libperl-dev, desktop-file-utils
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), libncurses5-dev | libncurses-dev, gettext, libtext-unidecode-perl, help2man, libperl-dev, desktop-file-utils
 Standards-Version: 4.5.0
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/debian-tex/texinfo.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/debian-tex/texinfo