diff --git a/packaging/MSWindows/MINGW_SETUP.sh b/packaging/MSWindows/MINGW_SETUP.sh
index 439dbde4f5..4cb893e392 100644
--- a/packaging/MSWindows/MINGW_SETUP.sh
+++ b/packaging/MSWindows/MINGW_SETUP.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $PACMAN --noconfirm --needed -S ${XPKG}lz4 heimdal-libs openssh sshpass ${XPKG}l
 $PACMAN --noconfirm --needed -S ${XPKG}gst-python
 #development tools and libs for building extra packages:
 $PACMAN --noconfirm --needed -S base-devel ${XPKG}yasm ${XPKG}nasm subversion rsync zip gtk-doc ${XPKG}cmake ${XPKG}gcc ${XPKG}pkgconf ${XPKG}libffi ${XPKG}python-pandocfilters
-for x in cryptography cffi pycparser numpy pillow cx_Freeze appdirs paramiko comtypes netifaces rencode setproctitle pyu2f ldap ldap3 bcrypt pynacl lz4 brotli pyopengl nvidia-ml zeroconf certifi yaml py-cpuinfo winkerberos gssapi coverage psutil oauthlib; do
+for x in cryptography cffi pycparser numpy pillow cx_Freeze appdirs paramiko comtypes netifaces rencode setproctitle pyu2f ldap ldap3 bcrypt pynacl lz4 pyopengl nvidia-ml zeroconf certifi yaml py-cpuinfo winkerberos gssapi coverage psutil oauthlib; do
 	$PACMAN --noconfirm --needed -S ${XPKG}python-${x}
 done
 #dependencies of browser_cookie3 and pycuda,
diff --git a/packaging/debian/xpra/control b/packaging/debian/xpra/control
index f829faba12..5563210e0a 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/xpra/control
+++ b/packaging/debian/xpra/control
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
         ,python3-pil
 # packet compression:
         ,python3-lz4
-# clipboard packet compression:
-        ,python3-brotli
 # ssl (generate cert), wss:
         ,openssl
 #we need a vfb: either Xdummy or Xvfb
diff --git a/packaging/rpm/xpra.spec b/packaging/rpm/xpra.spec
index 4fff400516..c052be37b0 100644
--- a/packaging/rpm/xpra.spec
+++ b/packaging/rpm/xpra.spec
@@ -182,7 +182,6 @@ Recommends:         python3-kerberos
 Recommends:         python3-gssapi
 Recommends:         python3-ldap
 Recommends:         python3-ldap3
-Recommends:         python3-brotli
 #Suggests:           python3-cpuinfo
 Requires:			libwebp
 %if 0%{?fedora}