diff --git a/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md b/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
index 39b0c730..e315efd7 100644
--- a/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
+++ b/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@
   > tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.
   > By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip
   > hidden files/directories and binary files.
-* Run `git checkout $version && ci/build-and-publish-deb $version` on a Linux
-  system that has `cargo deb` installed.
 * Run `git checkout $version && ci/build-and-publish-m2 $version` on a macOS
   system with Apple silicon.
 * Run `cargo publish`.
diff --git a/ci/build-and-publish-deb b/ci/build-and-publish-deb
deleted file mode 100755
index bc3ab748..00000000
--- a/ci/build-and-publish-deb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# This script builds a binary dpkg for Debian based distros. It does not
-# currently run in CI, and is instead run manually and the resulting dpkg is
-# uploaded to GitHub at the end of this script.
-#
-# Note that this requires 'cargo deb', which can be installed with
-# 'cargo install cargo-deb'.
-#
-# This should be run from the root of the ripgrep repo.
-#
-# TODO: It looks like this script could be pretty easily ported into GitHub
-# Actions?
-
-set -e
-D="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd)"
-
-if ! command -V cargo-deb > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-  echo "cargo-deb command missing" >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-version="$1"
-if [ -z "$version" ]; then
-  echo "missing version" >&2
-  echo "Usage: "$(basename "$0")" <version>" >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-if ! grep -q "version = \"$version\"" Cargo.toml; then
-  echo "version does not match Cargo.toml" >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-# 'cargo deb' does not seem to provide a way to specify an asset that is
-# created at build time, such as ripgrep's man page. To work around this,
-# we force a debug build, copy out the man page (and shell completions)
-# produced from that build, put it into a predictable location and then build
-# the deb, which knows where to look.
-cargo build
-
-DEPLOY_DIR=deployment/deb
-mkdir -p "$DEPLOY_DIR"
-
-# Generate man page and shell completions. `cargo deb` knows how to find these
-# files via the manifest configuration in `Cargo.toml`.
-"target/debug/rg" --generate complete-bash > "$DEPLOY_DIR/rg.bash"
-"target/debug/rg" --generate complete-fish > "$DEPLOY_DIR/rg.fish"
-"target/debug/rg" --generate complete-zsh > "$DEPLOY_DIR/_rg"
-"target/debug/rg" --generate man > "$DEPLOY_DIR/rg.1"
-
-# Since we're distributing the dpkg, we don't know whether the user will have
-# PCRE2 installed, so just do a static build.
-PCRE2_SYS_STATIC=1 cargo deb --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
-target="target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/debian"
-deb="$target/ripgrep_$version-1_amd64.deb"
-debsum="$deb.sha256"
-shasum -a 256 "$deb" > "$debsum"
-gh release upload "$version" "$deb" "$debsum"