diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9e257feb..7058ecc4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0), flex, bison, dejagnu, tcl8.5, expect,
     lsb-release, patchutils, diffstat, xz-utils, chrpath, python-dev,
     libedit-dev, swig, python-sphinx, ocaml-nox, binutils-dev, libcloog-isl-dev,
     libisl-dev (>= 0.11.1), binutils-gold [amd64 armel armhf i386 powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 sparc sparc64 x32],
-    ${dep:codecoverage}
+     lcov
 Build-Conflicts: oprofile, ocaml
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 Homepage: http://www.llvm.org/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 0a167d7f..55d2d5e4 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ ifneq (,$(filter codecoverage,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 	CODECOVERAGE=yes
 	CXXFLAGS_EXTRA="-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
 	LDFLAGS_EXTRA="-coverage -lgcov"
-	control_vars = "$(control_vars) -Vdep:codecoverage=lcov"
 endif
 
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