diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 996b4846..4b2ea12c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ debian-cd (3.0.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     + old defs and rules in the Makefile
     + tools/add_secured
     + don't depend on jigdo-file any more
+    + don't depend on apt-utils any more - we don't use apt-ftparchive now
     + remove the SKIPMIRRORCHECK variable, now completely obsolete
     + change the mkisofs dep from (mkisofs | mkhybrid) to (mkisofs | genisoimage)
     + remove Recommends on debianutils 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2dd87b1b..79a19a50 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ XS-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/debian-cd/trunk
 
 Package: debian-cd
 Architecture: all
-Depends: perl, cpp, libdigest-md5-perl, tofrodos | sysutils, apt (>= 0.3.11.1), make, mkisofs | genisoimage, lynx, grep-dctrl, apt-utils (>= 0.5.4), debootstrap, bc, libcompress-zlib-perl
+Depends: perl, cpp, libdigest-md5-perl, tofrodos | sysutils, apt (>= 0.3.11.1), make, mkisofs | genisoimage, lynx, grep-dctrl, debootstrap, bc, libcompress-zlib-perl
 Recommends: hfsutils
 Suggests: palo (>= 0.94), binutils-multiarch, netpbm, syslinux
 Description: Tools for building (Official) Debian CD set