diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 363f6af3..afaf303d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.565) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Also drop dependency on python.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:24:29 +0100
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.564) disco; urgency=medium
 
   * Use python3 vmdkstream exclusively; we should not fall back to python2.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9dd5287f..a4d85bc6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          make,
          parted,
          procps,
-         python-minimal | python,
          python3-minimal | python3,
          python3-apt,
          python3-software-properties,