diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a6fe02f..9c42e4d 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                dh-python,
                python-all,
                python-iso8601,
-               python-setuptools,
-               python-sphinx (>= 1.0.7+dfsg)
+               python-setuptools
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
 Homepage: https://chemistry.apache.org/python/cmislib.html
@@ -20,24 +19,9 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends: python-iso8601,
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${python:Depends}
-Suggests: python-cmislib-doc
 Description: CMIS client library for Python
  Apache Chemistry cmislib is a CMIS client library for Python.
  .
  The goal of this library is to provide an interoperable API to CMIS
  repositories such as Alfresco, Nuxeo, KnowledgeTree, MS SharePoint, EMC
  Documentum, and any other content repository that is CMIS-compliant.
-
-Package: python-cmislib-doc
-Section: doc
-Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends},
-         ${sphinxdoc:Depends}
-Description: CMIS client library for Python (documentation)
- Apache Chemistry cmislib is a CMIS client library for Python.
- .
- The goal of this library is to provide an interoperable API to CMIS
- repositories such as Alfresco, Nuxeo, KnowledgeTree, MS SharePoint, EMC
- Documentum, and any other content repository that is CMIS-compliant.
- .
- This package contains the documentation.
diff --git a/debian/python-cmislib-doc.doc-base b/debian/python-cmislib-doc.doc-base
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e2844b..0000000
--- a/debian/python-cmislib-doc.doc-base
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Document: python-cmislib-doc
-Title: Apache Chemistry cmislib documentation
-Author: Apache Chemistry Project <dev@chemistry.apache.org>
-Section: Programming/Python
-
-Format: HTML
-Index: /usr/share/doc/python-cmislib-doc/html/index.html
-Files: /usr/share/doc/python-cmislib-doc/html/*.html
diff --git a/debian/python-cmislib-doc.docs b/debian/python-cmislib-doc.docs
deleted file mode 100644
index ee08470..0000000
--- a/debian/python-cmislib-doc.docs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-src/doc/.build/html
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 571d02f..da456bd 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -6,12 +6,4 @@
 export PYBUILD_NAME=cmislib
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --with=python2,sphinxdoc --buildsystem=pybuild
-
-override_dh_auto_build:
-	dh_auto_build
-	PYTHONPATH=. sphinx-build -b html -d src/doc/.build/.doctrees -N src/doc/src src/doc/.build/html
-
-override_dh_clean:
-	rm -rf src/doc/.build/
-	dh_clean
+	dh $@ --with=python2 --buildsystem=pybuild