diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8f347799d3b6cd6316bf25f0533c24dff40c601e..00ed676c17b205f14a46baa784d37acb8d01cbc9 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), scons (>= 0.97), g++, binutils-dev, libboost-de
 	libboost-test-dev, libboost-date-time-dev, libboost-regex-dev, 
 	libboost-filesystem-dev, libboost-serialization-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev,
 	libboost-signals-dev, doxygen (>= 1.5.5), libreadline-dev, dia, tidy, xsltproc, 
-	graphviz, perl-base, linklint, netpbm, gs, tetex-bin, perl
+	graphviz, perl-base, linklint, netpbm, gs, tetex-bin
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2 
 Section: libs