diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 61f03dd1c..2837206a6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+grub2 (2.00+20131208-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Drop qemu-utils build-dependency; the test suite no longer uses
+    qemu-img.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:39:47 +0000
+
 grub2 (2.00+20131208-1) experimental; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream snapshot.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bbac9c5e4..2c273f315 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.4.2~),
  libsdl1.2-dev [!hurd-any],
  xorriso (>= 0.5.6.pl00),
  qemu-system [i386 kfreebsd-i386 kopensolaris-i386 any-amd64],
- qemu-utils [!hurd-any],
  parted [!hurd-any],
  libfuse-dev (>= 2.8.4-1.4) [linux-any kfreebsd-any],
  ttf-dejavu-core,