diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3cbae8b4..8081291c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-cd/trunk?op=log
 
 Package: debian-cd
 Architecture: all
-Depends: perl, cpp, libdigest-md5-perl, tofrodos, apt (>= 0.3.11.1), make, genisoimage, lynx, grep-dctrl, bc, libcompress-zlib-perl, mawk
+Depends: perl, cpp, libdigest-md5-perl, tofrodos, apt (>= 0.3.11.1), make, genisoimage, lynx, grep-dctrl, bc, libcompress-zlib-perl
 Recommends: hfsutils, netpbm, syslinux
 Description: Tools for building (Official) Debian CD set
  Debian-cd is the official tool for building Debian CD set since the potato