diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 42085c2..222d786 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ pcsc-lite (1.8.23-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Fix "missing multi-arch bits" by adding Multi-Arch: foreign"
     (Closes: #896987)
+  * d/control: fix lintian warning: binary-control-field-duplicates-source
+    field "priority" in package libpcsclite1-dbg
 
  -- Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>  Tue, 08 May 2018 22:07:50 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 76b73f4..fc30ee5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Description: Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC (development files)
 Package: libpcsclite1-dbg
 Section: debug
 Architecture: any
-Priority: optional
 Conflicts: libpcsclite-dbg
 Replaces: libpcsclite-dbg
 Depends: libpcsclite1 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}