diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8c67aea..29bff57 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                libx11-dev,
                libxrandr-dev,
                libxml2-dev,
-               libunique-dev,
                gtk-doc-tools,
                python-dev,
                libglib2.0-doc,
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
-         libunique-1.0-0,
          hicolor-icon-theme,
          libmate-desktop-2-17,
          mate-desktop-common (= ${source:Version}),