1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8167a901a4..763fabd6f6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,11 +3,8 @@ Section: contrib/python
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>
 # keep this list in sync with the build dependencies in docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv.
-# TODO: Remove the dependency on dh-systemd after dropping support for Ubuntu xenial
-#       On all other supported releases, it's merely a transitional package which
-#       does nothing but depends on debhelper (> 9.20160709)
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 9.20160709) | dh-systemd,
+ debhelper (>= 10),
  dh-virtualenv (>= 1.1),
  libsystemd-dev,
  libpq-dev,