diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 32068cbd5b811c36dc63909998f686b0250ae5f3..61a019ce0e5c49227cfa76fc3000f0eabdb505a6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Description: GNU version of the tar archiving utility
 Package: tar-scripts
 Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: foreign
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, tar
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Conflicts: dump
 Description: optional scripts for GNU version of the tar archiving utility
  This package provides the backup, restore, backup.sh, and dump-remind
diff --git a/debian/tar-scripts.lintian b/debian/tar-scripts.lintian
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a531be62e82c6a0b6d8b6942b79fc922e451064
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/tar-scripts.lintian
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tar-scripts: script-with-language-extension usr/sbin/backup.sh