diff --git a/packaging/debian/debian/control b/packaging/debian/debian/control
index 3c7420d9..9752c42a 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/debian/control
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ Depends: python, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Recommends: python-recoll, aspell, xdg-utils, xsltproc,
             python-libxml2, python-libxslt1
 Suggests: antiword,
-          catdoc,
           ghostscript,
           libimage-exiftool-perl,
           poppler-utils,