2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 14eeaedd8..5f32fdd79 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ openssh (1:7.6p1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
       mostly to do with host/network byte order confusion.
     - sshd(8): Avoid Linux seccomp violations on ppc64le over the socketcall
       syscall.
+  * Build-depend on debhelper (>= 9.20160709~) rather than dh-systemd.
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:34:34 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 838ec154f..61f2bbb97 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ Section: net
 Priority: standard
 Maintainer: Debian OpenSSH Maintainers <debian-ssh@lists.debian.org>
 Build-Depends: autotools-dev,
-               debhelper (>= 9~),
+               debhelper (>= 9.20160709~),
                dh-autoreconf,
                dh-exec,
-               dh-systemd (>= 1.4),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~),
                libaudit-dev [linux-any],
                libedit-dev,