diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3d54718c..4574519d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 linkchecker (1.8.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.
+  * Drop the glibc depends, its not needed. glibc should be fixed
+    on testing itself.
 
  -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Feb 2003 02:15:43 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 439bedbc..44f27f9f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ Source: linkchecker
 Section: web
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: python2.2-dev (>= 2.2.1), debhelper (>= 4.1.0), gettext, libc6-dev (>= 2.3)
+Build-Depends: python2.2-dev (>= 2.2.1), debhelper (>= 4.1.0), gettext
 Standards-Version: 3.5.8.0
 
 Package: linkchecker
 Architecture: any
-Depends: python2.2 (>= 2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.3)
+Depends: python2.2 (>= 2.2.1)
 Conflicts: linkchecker-ssl
 Suggests: httpd
 Description: check HTML documents for broken links