diff --git a/perl-Lingua-EN-Tagger.spec b/perl-Lingua-EN-Tagger.spec
index d87abe9..f3d3522 100644
--- a/perl-Lingua-EN-Tagger.spec
+++ b/perl-Lingua-EN-Tagger.spec
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ Requires:       perl(Lingua::Stem) >= 0.81
 Requires:       perl(Memoize::ExpireLRU) >= 0.55
 Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
 
+# despite being arch-dependent, there are no binaries
+# so avoid empty debug package
+%global debug_package %{nil}
+
 %{?perl_default_filter}
 
 %description