diff --git a/mythtv/cmake/MythFindPackages.cmake b/mythtv/cmake/MythFindPackages.cmake
index 538d122a5fb..e27b59a0865 100644
--- a/mythtv/cmake/MythFindPackages.cmake
+++ b/mythtv/cmake/MythFindPackages.cmake
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ if(ENABLE_BINDINGS_PYTHON)
       Python3Modules
       OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS
         MySQLdb
-        future
         lxml
         pip>=23.0.1
         requests