diff --git a/debian/cassandra.install b/debian/cassandra.install
index ecefe47dfa..214b5dba3b 100644
--- a/debian/cassandra.install
+++ b/debian/cassandra.install
@@ -11,6 +11,5 @@ bin/json2sstable usr/bin
 bin/sstable2json usr/bin
 bin/sstablekeys usr/bin
 bin/sstableloader usr/bin
-bin/cqlsh usr/bin
 lib/*.jar usr/share/cassandra/lib
 lib/licenses usr/share/doc/cassandra
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1529582ddd..56b76edf29 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Source: cassandra
 Section: misc
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Eric Evans <eevans@apache.org>
-Uploaders: Sylvain Lebresne <slebresne@apache.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), openjdk-6-jdk (>= 6b11) | java6-sdk, ant (>= 1.7), ant-optional (>= 1.7), subversion, python-support (>= 0.6)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), openjdk-6-jdk (>= 6b11) | java6-sdk, ant (>= 1.7), ant-optional (>= 1.7), subversion
 Homepage: http://cassandra.apache.org
 Vcs-Svn: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk
 Vcs-Browser: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cassandra/trunk
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.3
 
 Package: cassandra
 Architecture: all
-Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b11) | java6-runtime, jsvc (>= 1.0), libcommons-daemon-java (>= 1.0), adduser, libjna-java, python-cql, python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b11) | java6-runtime, jsvc (>= 1.0), libcommons-daemon-java (>= 1.0), adduser, libjna-java
 Conflicts: apache-cassandra1
 Replaces: apache-cassandra1
 Description: distributed storage system for structured data
diff --git a/debian/pyversions b/debian/pyversions
deleted file mode 100644
index b3dc41ebcd..0000000000
--- a/debian/pyversions
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2.5-
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 97e02742a2..89067012cc 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ clean:
 	rm -rf bin/java
 	find -name "*.pyc" -exec rm '{}' ';'
 	find -name "*py.class" -exec rm '{}' ';'
-	$(RM) -r pylib/build
 	dh_clean
 
 build: build-stamp
@@ -27,8 +26,6 @@ build-stamp:
 	printf "version=%s" $(VERSION) > build.properties
 
 	$(ANT) jar
-	cd pylib && python setup.py install --no-compile --install-layout deb \
-		--root $(CURDIR)/debian/cassandra
 
 	touch build-stamp
 
@@ -37,7 +34,6 @@ install: build
 	dh_testroot
 	dh_installdirs
 	dh_install
-	dh_pysupport
 
 	# Copy in the jar and symlink to something stable
 	dh_install build/apache-cassandra-$(VERSION).jar \
diff --git a/pylib/setup.py b/pylib/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 704d077cdf..0000000000
--- a/pylib/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-from distutils.core import setup
-
-setup(
-    name="cassandra-pylib",
-    description="Cassandra Python Libraries",
-    packages=["cqlshlib"],
-)