diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index afaf303d..8202ac5d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 livecd-rootfs (2.565) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Also drop dependency on python.
+  * Drop python3-minimal alternate dependency; nothing should depend on
+    python3-minimal.
 
  -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:24:29 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a4d85bc6..9a9c1a69 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          make,
          parted,
          procps,
-         python3-minimal | python3,
+         python3,
          python3-apt,
          python3-software-properties,
          qemu-utils,