diff --git a/ceph.spec.in b/ceph.spec.in
index 482808d4142..d0b8747a589 100644
--- a/ceph.spec.in
+++ b/ceph.spec.in
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ BuildRequires:	systemd
 PreReq:		%fillup_prereq
 BuildRequires:	net-tools
 BuildRequires:	libbz2-devel
-BuildRequires:  btrfsprogs
 BuildRequires:	mozilla-nss-devel
 BuildRequires:	keyutils-devel
 BuildRequires:  libopenssl-devel
@@ -238,7 +237,6 @@ BuildRequires:	liblz4-devel >= 1.7
 %if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel}
 Requires:	systemd
 BuildRequires:  boost-random
-BuildRequires:	btrfs-progs
 BuildRequires:	nss-devel
 BuildRequires:	keyutils-libs-devel
 BuildRequires:	libibverbs-devel
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f9d293787a0..d4ba1286b5f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/ceph/ceph
 Maintainer: Ceph Maintainers <ceph-maintainers@lists.ceph.com>
 Uploaders: Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@redhat.com>,
            Alfredo Deza <adeza@redhat.com>,
-Build-Depends: btrfs-tools,
-               cmake (>= 3.5),
+Build-Depends: cmake (>= 3.5),
                cpio,
                cryptsetup-bin | cryptsetup,
                cython,