1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bae14b41e4..8167a901a4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ 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),
- dh-systemd,
+ debhelper (>= 9.20160709) | dh-systemd,
  dh-virtualenv (>= 1.1),
  libsystemd-dev,
  libpq-dev,
@@ -29,7 +31,6 @@ Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1)
 Depends:
  adduser,
  debconf,
- python3-distutils|libpython3-stdlib (<< 3.6),
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${shlibs:Depends},
  ${synapse:pydepends},