diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b991b875..27e44375 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.debhelper/
 .idea/
 app/
 bin/
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 62b8fe61..b508c523 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Package: com.github.geigi.cozy
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${misc:Depends},${shlibs:Depends},python3,python3-mutagen,python3-cairo,python3-gst-1.0,file,libgstreamer1.0-0,libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0,gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
+Depends: ${misc:Depends},${shlibs:Depends},python3,python3-mutagen,python3-peewee,python3-cairo,python3-gst-1.0,file,libgstreamer1.0-0,libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0,gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)
 Description: Cozy
  A modern audiobook player
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 8d33bba2..9af1bea7 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ override_dh_auto_clean:
 
 override_dh_auto_configure:
 	mkdir -p debian/build
-	mkdir -p peewee
-	PYTHONUSERBASE=${CURDIR}/peewee pip3 install --user peewee
 	cd debian/build && meson --prefix=/usr ../..
 
 DIRS = .