diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index d82351f..4560701 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -28,9 +28,7 @@ Build-Depends: asciidoc-base,
                perl-modules,
                python3-minimal,
                rsync,
-               sed,
                sphinx-common,
-               tar,
                xmlto,
                zlib1g-dev,
                zstd,