diff --git a/hack/make/release-deb b/hack/make/release-deb
index 423e776e64..fd8a0f8011 100755
--- a/hack/make/release-deb
+++ b/hack/make/release-deb
@@ -118,9 +118,6 @@ for dir in contrib/builder/deb/${PACKAGE_ARCH}/*/; do
 		-name *~${codename#*-}*.deb > "$APTDIR/dists/$codename/$component/filelist"
 done
 
-# clean the databases
-apt-ftparchive clean "$APTDIR/conf/apt-ftparchive.conf"
-
 # run the apt-ftparchive commands so we can have pinning
 apt-ftparchive generate "$APTDIR/conf/apt-ftparchive.conf"