diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 520865b2..5a0e3fc7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.659) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Remove dependencies on qemu-utils and snapd on riscv64, we don't have
+    those yet, but at least we can be on parity with i386 livecd-rootfs
+    already.
+
+ -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:04:57 +0100
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.658) focal; urgency=medium
 
   * Remove some deprecated raspi2 special-casing, switch the main universal
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 42c023b6..13ee2dc9 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          python3-apt,
          python3-software-properties,
          python3-yaml,
-         qemu-utils [!i386],
+         qemu-utils [!i386 !riscv64],
          rsync,
-         snapd (>= 2.39) [!i386],
+         snapd (>= 2.39) [!i386 !riscv64],
          squashfs-tools (>= 1:3.3-1),
          sudo,
          u-boot-tools [armhf arm64],