diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f5624cec4f68..941edc38b3d4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: ridiculous_fish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>
 Uploaders: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), libncurses5-dev, cmake3 (>= 3.2.0) | cmake (>= 3.2.0), gettext,
 # Test dependencies
- expect, locales-all
+ locales-all
 # When libpcre2-dev is available on all supported Debian versions, add a dependency on that.
 Standards-Version: 3.9.4
 Homepage: https://fishshell.com/
diff --git a/fish.spec.in b/fish.spec.in
index e6eabacb170f..652d75b36f3a 100644
--- a/fish.spec.in
+++ b/fish.spec.in
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ BuildRequires: pcre2-devel
 %endif
 
 # for tests
-BuildRequires: expect
 %if 0%{?fedora}
 # Need the en_US.utf-8 locale at a minimum
 BuildRequires: glibc-langpack-en