diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 91cfc57..14aeec3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   * xz-utils:
     - Lower priority of xz-utils to standard.  Closes: #685203.
     - README.Debian: Remove notes about differences from upstream.
+    - Remove old NEWS.Debian.
 
  -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>  Sun, 27 Jan 2019 15:02:13 -0800
 
diff --git a/debian/xz-utils.NEWS b/debian/xz-utils.NEWS
deleted file mode 100644
index 6eac958..0000000
--- a/debian/xz-utils.NEWS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-xz-utils (4.999.9beta+20100212-2) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  The tiny xzdec and lzmadec decompressors have been moved to the new
-  xzdec package.  One can use xzcat (which is an abbreviation for
-  “xz --decompress --stdout”) to replace them where space is not a
-  premium.
-
- -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>  Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:24:10 -0600
-
-xz-utils (4.999.9beta+20100117-1) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  From this version on, xz produces sparse files by default when
-  decompressing.  This saves disk space when reproducing files with long
-  runs of zero bytes, such as file system images.  Implementing this
-  feature requires seeking forward beyond the end of a file so that the
-  operating system knows where to put in a hole.
-
-  If you use xz --decompress to write to end of a file that is appended
-  to at the same time by another process, this could cause concurrent
-  output from the other command to be overwritten.  This is a rare and
-  quite weird thing to do.  If you really want to do it, note that xz’s
-  buffering strategy is not part of its documented interface; to safely
-  interleave concurrent output from xz and another command, a
-  construction such as
-
-  	xz --decompress input.xz | dd ibs=1k obs=1k >> log
-
-  would be needed to avoid unpredictable results.
-
- -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>  Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:51:37 -0600
-