diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 598e80d9..0eda076e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 byobu (5.132) unreleased; urgency=medium
 
-  * UNRELEASED
+  * debian/control, debian/rules:
+    - pep8 binary is gone from Debian, disable for now
 
- -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Sun, 09 Feb 2020 10:51:13 -0600
+ -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Sat, 15 Feb 2020 11:50:59 -0600
 
 byobu (5.131-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ebe0a46b..f0340865 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>
 Uploaders: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@koumbit.org>
 Standards-Version: 4.1.3
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), gettext-base, automake, autoconf, python3-pep8, dh-python, python3
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), gettext-base, automake, autoconf, dh-python, python3
 Homepage: http://byobu.org
 Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kirkland/byobu/trunk
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a915cc79..444cb8af 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
 	# Check python syntax
-	pep8 --verbose --repeat --ignore W191,E501,E117 usr/lib/byobu/include/config.py usr/lib/byobu/include/select-session.py
+	# pep8 gone from Debian
+	#pep8 --verbose --repeat --ignore W191,E501,E117 usr/lib/byobu/include/config.py usr/lib/byobu/include/select-session.py
 	# Check shell syntax
 	sh -n `find . -type f -exec grep -l "^\#\!/bin/sh" '{}' \;`
 	# Check for bashisms in shell scripts