diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7dec42c39a..3c4b7f7a6a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
  ruby-bcrypt-pbkdf (>= 1.0~),
 # Gitaly GRPC client
  ruby-gitaly (>= 13.4.6~),
- ruby-grpc (>= 1.30.2~),
+# See #966653
+# ruby-grpc (>= 1.30.2~),
  ruby-google-protobuf (>= 3.12~),
 #
  ruby-toml-rb (>= 1.0.0-2~),