diff --git a/debian/TODO b/debian/TODO
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c6936e..0000000
--- a/debian/TODO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-
-* Generate the documentation in a separate package.
-At the moment, generation of the user manual with docbook fails.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index adbe754..bae6172 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 xmlunit (1.6-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Build with the DH sequencer instead of CDBS
+  * Removed the libxmlunit-java-doc package
   * Standards-Version updated to 4.4.0
   * Switch to debhelper level 11
   * Use salsa.debian.org Vcs-* URLs
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6d25b98..124e948 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,10 +8,8 @@
 Build-Depends:
  ant,
  ant-optional,
- dblatex,
  debhelper (>= 11),
  default-jdk,
- docbook-xsl,
  junit,
  libjaxp1.3-java,
  libxalan2-java (>= 2.7.1-3),
@@ -30,15 +28,3 @@
  It compares a control XML document to a test document or the result of a
  transformation, validates documents, and compares the results of XPath
  expressions.
-
-Package: libxmlunit-java-doc
-Architecture: all
-Section: doc
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, default-jdk-doc
-Description: Documentation for XMLUnit
- XMLUnit extends JUnit and NUnit to enable unit testing of XML.
- It compares a control XML document to a test document or the result of a
- transformation, validates documents, and compares the results of XPath
- expressions.
- .
- This package provides the API and user documentation for XMLUnit.
diff --git a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.doc-base.api b/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.doc-base.api
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d72081..0000000
--- a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.doc-base.api
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Document: libxmlunit-java
-Title: Programmer API for XMLUnit
-Author: Jeff Martin, Tim Bacon, Stefan Bodewig
-Abstract: Java API for XMLUnit, a library that enables JUnit-style
- assertions to be made about the content and structure of XML.
-Section: Programming
-
-Format: HTML
-Index: /usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java/api/index.html
-Files: /usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java/api/*
diff --git a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.doc-base.userguide b/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.doc-base.userguide
deleted file mode 100644
index e9177a3..0000000
--- a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.doc-base.userguide
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Document: libxmlunit-java-doc
-Title: User guide for XMLUnit
-Author: Jeff Martin, Tim Bacon, Stefan Bodewig
-Abstract: User guide for XMLUnit, a library that enables JUnit-style
- assertions to be made about the content and structure of XML.
-Section: Programming
-
-Format: HTML
-Index: /usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java-doc/userguide/html/index.html
-Files: /usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java-doc/userguide/html/*
diff --git a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.install b/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.install
deleted file mode 100644
index bc1830b..0000000
--- a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-build/doc/api usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java
-build/doc/userguide usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java-doc
-build/doc/*.html usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java-doc
-build/doc/*.png usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java-doc
-
diff --git a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.links b/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.links
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ab5b76..0000000
--- a/debian/libxmlunit-java-doc.links
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java/api usr/share/doc/libxmlunit-java-doc/api
-
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 0a9d19c..fc473ac 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	dh $@ --with maven-repo-helper
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
-	dh_auto_build -- jar test docs -Dxmlunit.version=$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM) -Ddb5.xsl=/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh
+	dh_auto_build -- jar test -Dxmlunit.version=$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)
 	cp build/lib/xmlunit-*.pom build/lib/xmlunit.pom
 
 get-orig-pom: