diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0b6a432d..bff0dd31 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ ostree (2016.10-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     David King
   * Install GObject-Introspection typelibs to multiarch path,
     and mark gir1.2-ostree-1.0 as Multi-Arch: same
+  * libostree-dev: stop depending on ostree. It isn't necessary to
+    use the library, and would break multiarch installability
 
  -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:58:32 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 40d53042..0e5b0d81 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ Section: libdevel
 Depends:
  gir1.2-ostree-1.0 (= ${binary:Version}),
  libglib2.0-dev,
- ostree (= ${binary:Version}),
  pkg-config,
  ${misc:Depends},
 Suggests: