diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2d4fefe..80c5c00 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Maintainer: Software Heritage developers <swh-devel@inria.fr>
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
-               dh-python,
+               dh-python (>= 2),
                python3-all,
                python3-dateutil,
                python3-nose,
diff --git a/swh/lister/github/__init__.py b/swh/lister/github/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index fdffa2a..0000000
--- a/swh/lister/github/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-# placeholder