diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
index 5fcf9bcb47..28c4f89d5c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-static-progs \
 		--with-start-stop-daemon \
 		--with-zlib \
 		--with-bz2lib \
+		--without-liblzma \
 		--without-selinux \
 		--without-sgml-doc"