diff --git a/package/python-lxml/Config.in b/package/python-lxml/Config.in
index fcb30d56ee..3f3cb5c550 100644
--- a/package/python-lxml/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-lxml/Config.in
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_LXML
 	bool "python-lxml"
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXML2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXSLT
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_ZLIB if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_ZLIB if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_ZLIB
 	help
 	  The lxml XML toolkit is a Pythonic binding for the C libraries
 	  libxml2 and libxslt.