diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 0882bbaa77..649fcc0d7d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ Merged from 4.0:
  * Remove unnecessary shuffling of GossipDigests in Gossiper#makeRandomGossipDigest (CASSANDRA-18546)
 Merged from 3.11:
 Merged from 3.0:
+ * Remove dh_python use in Debian packaging (CASSANDRA-18558)
 
 
 4.1.2
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ea2281b2e9..3d1babe916 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ install: build
 	dh_testroot
 	dh_installdirs
 	dh_install
-	dh_python3
 
 	# Copy in the jar and symlink to something stable
 	dh_install build/apache-cassandra-$(VERSION).jar \