diff --git a/dcapi/debian/rules b/dcapi/debian/rules
index d7c7a769ef..1dc3bcd618 100755
--- a/dcapi/debian/rules
+++ b/dcapi/debian/rules
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
 # This is the debhelper compatibility version to use.
 export DH_COMPAT=4
 
-# These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
-# from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
-DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE   ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
 DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
 
 
@@ -30,7 +27,7 @@ config.status: configure
 	dh_testdir
 	# Add here commands to configure the package.
 	# autoreconf
-	./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
+	./configure --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
 		--prefix=/usr \
 		--disable-maintainer-mode \
 		CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)"