diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b9a156479..e9d890c05 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Maintainer: David Sansome <me@davidsansome.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7),
                liblastfm-dev,
                libtag1-dev,
-               libnotify-dev,
                libboost-dev,
                libboost-serialization1.38-dev |
                libboost-serialization1.40-dev |