diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9f0d28a..f26ad1f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ Section: python
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki@spotify.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), python(>= 2.6.6-3~),
- python-setuptools, python-sphinx, python-mock
+ python-setuptools, python-mock
 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Homepage: http://www.github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv
 X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
 
 Package: dh-virtualenv
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},  ${sphinxdoc:Depends},
+Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
  virtualenv | python-virtualenv (>= 1.7)
 Description: wrap and build python packages using virtualenv
  This package provides a dh sequencer that helps you to deploy your
diff --git a/debian/dh-virtualenv.doc-base b/debian/dh-virtualenv.doc-base
deleted file mode 100644
index 301dd52..0000000
--- a/debian/dh-virtualenv.doc-base
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Document: dh-virtualenv
-Title: dh-virtualenv documentation
-Author: Spotify
-Abstract: This manual describes dh-virtualenv and how to use it.
-Section: Programming
-
-Format: HTML
-Index: /usr/share/doc/dh-virtualenv/html/index.html
-Files: /usr/share/doc/dh-virtualenv/html/*.html
diff --git a/debian/dh-virtualenv.manpages b/debian/dh-virtualenv.manpages
deleted file mode 100644
index f096ef6..0000000
--- a/debian/dh-virtualenv.manpages
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-doc/dh_virtualenv.1
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index bd60c41..f873571 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --with python2 --with sphinxdoc
+	dh $@ --with python2
 
 override_dh_auto_clean:
 	rm -rf doc/_build
@@ -10,9 +10,4 @@ override_dh_auto_clean:
 	dh_auto_clean
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
-	rst2man doc/dh_virtualenv.1.rst > doc/dh_virtualenv.1
 	dh_auto_build
-
-override_dh_installdocs:
-	python setup.py build_sphinx
-	dh_installdocs doc/_build/html