diff --git a/debian/plinth.lintian-overrides b/debian/plinth.lintian-overrides
index 228eb08d1..979b87bd4 100644
--- a/debian/plinth.lintian-overrides
+++ b/debian/plinth.lintian-overrides
@@ -11,3 +11,9 @@ plinth binary: non-standard-apache2-configuration-name *
 # relation to the Debian project and the current difficulties having a separate
 # packaging repository.
 plinth binary: latest-debian-changelog-entry-changed-to-native
+
+# Plinth depends on Apache2 and cannot work with just any web server. Instead of
+# being a simple web application it is an administration console that configures
+# web servers. At some point we would like to work with other web servers but
+# that requires significant effort.
+plinth binary: web-application-should-not-depend-unconditionally-on-apache2