diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4009d75f2..33ee70662 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Description: host and network monitoring system
 
 Package: icinga2-common
 Architecture: all
-Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
+Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: host and network monitoring system - common files
  Icinga 2 is still in development and not ready for production use!
  .