diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2ea7d9b..19b758e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
 
   [ Sandro Tosi ]
   * New upstream release
+  * debian/control
+    - remove pytest-asyncio from b-d, not needed
 
- -- Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Feb 2022 22:00:25 -0500
+ -- Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Feb 2022 22:25:53 -0500
 
 fastapi (0.73.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a6a241b..d471d34 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
                python3-peewee <!nocheck>,
                python3-pydantic (>= 1.8.2) <!nocheck>,
                python3-pytest <!nocheck>,
-               python3-pytest-asyncio <!nocheck>,
                python3-requests <!nocheck>,
                python3-starlette (>= 0.16.0) <!nocheck>,
                python3-ujson <!nocheck>,