diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f00d88e4..c2175a4b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ Description: Swiss army knife for Debian repository management - main package
  This is the main package, it contains the aptly command-line utility.
 
 Package: aptly-api
-Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, aptly, adduser
+Description: Debian repository management tool
+ aptly is a Swiss army knife for Debian repository management.
 Description: Swiss army knife for Debian repository management - API
  It offers several features making it easy to manage Debian package
  repositories: