diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7d90f1226ac70b8f722b36073244d0daf20c753d..68f7aad224a981d576ce7a4f59de518417ca59f1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell
 
 Package: fish
 Architecture: any
-Conflicts: fish
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, passwd (>= 4.0.3-10), bc, gettext-base, man-db
 Recommends: python (>=2.6), xsel (>=1.2.0)
 Description: friendly interactive shell