diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index bcba8b9233..0aed2d9f62 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 3.11.16
  * Remove unnecessary String.format invocation in QueryProcessor when getting a prepared statement from cache (CASSANDRA-17202)
 Merged from 3.0:
+ * Remove dh_python use in Debian packaging (CASSANDRA-18558)
  * Pass down all contact points to driver for cassandra-stress (CASSANDRA-18025)
  * Validate the existence of a datacenter in nodetool rebuild (CASSANDRA-14319)
  * Suppress CVE-2023-2251 (CASSANDRA-18497)
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ff1d64df1b..9cd7f3e451 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ install: build
 	dh_testroot
 	dh_installdirs
 	dh_install
-	dh_python2
 
 	# Copy in the jar and symlink to something stable
 	dh_install build/apache-cassandra-$(VERSION).jar \