diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e894e5028f2..a2abffcc661 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Maintainer: Ceph Maintainers <ceph-maintainers@lists.ceph.com>
 Uploaders: Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@redhat.com>,
            Alfredo Deza <adeza@redhat.com>,
 Build-Depends: automake,
-               bison,
+# Jaeger       bison,
                cmake (>= 3.10.2),
                cpio,
                cryptsetup-bin | cryptsetup,
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Build-Depends: automake,
                dh-exec,
                dh-python,
                dh-systemd,
-               flex,
+# Jaeger       flex,
                git,
                gperf,
                g++ (>= 7),
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Build-Depends: automake,
                libcap-ng-dev,
                libcunit1-dev,
                libcurl4-openssl-dev,
-               libevent-dev,
+# Jaeger       libevent-dev,
                libexpat1-dev,
 # Make-Check   libffi-dev [!amd64],
                libfuse-dev,
@@ -70,8 +70,9 @@ Build-Depends: automake,
 # Make-Check   libxmlsec1-nss,
 # Make-Check   libxmlsec1-openssl,
 # Make-Check   libxmlsec1-dev,
+# Crimson      libyaml-cpp-dev,
                lsb-release,
-               nlohmann-json-dev | nlohmann-json3-dev,
+# Jaeger       nlohmann-json-dev | nlohmann-json3-dev,
                parted,
                patch,
                pkg-config,
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ Build-Depends: automake,
 # Make-Check   xmlstarlet,
                nasm [amd64],
                zlib1g-dev,
-Built-Using:   libyaml-cpp-dev (>= 0.6),
+# Jaeger       Built-Using:   libyaml-cpp-dev (>= 0.6),
 Standards-Version: 4.4.0
 
 Package: ceph
diff --git a/install-deps.sh b/install-deps.sh
index 9f9c407dbb5..d92e80d3547 100755
--- a/install-deps.sh
+++ b/install-deps.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ function munge_ceph_spec_in {
     if $with_seastar; then
         sed -i -e 's/%bcond_with seastar/%bcond_without seastar/g' $OUTFILE
     fi
+    if $with_jaeger; then
+        sed -i -e 's/%bcond_with jaeger/%bcond_without jaeger/g' $OUTFILE
+    fi
     if $with_zbd; then
         sed -i -e 's/%bcond_with zbd/%bcond_without zbd/g' $OUTFILE
     fi
@@ -61,6 +64,10 @@ function munge_debian_control {
     if $with_seastar; then
 	sed -i -e 's/^# Crimson[[:space:]]//g' $control
     fi
+    if $with_jaeger; then
+	sed -i -e 's/^# Jaeger[[:space:]]//g' $control
+	sed -i -e 's/^# Crimson      libyaml-cpp-dev,/d' $control
+    fi
     if $for_make_check; then
         sed -i 's/^# Make-Check[[:space:]]/             /g' $control
     fi
@@ -272,6 +279,7 @@ if [ x$(uname)x = xFreeBSDx ]; then
     exit
 else
     [ $WITH_SEASTAR ] && with_seastar=true || with_seastar=false
+    [ $WITH_JAEGER ] && with_jaeger=true || with_jaeger=false
     [ $WITH_ZBD ] && with_zbd=true || with_zbd=false
     source /etc/os-release
     case "$ID" in