diff -Nru gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/changelog gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/changelog
--- gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/changelog	2018-03-04 12:29:40.000000000 +1100
+++ gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/changelog	2018-03-10 10:49:26.000000000 +1100
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+gnome-contacts (3.27.90-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * Disable building telepathy support and drop related dependencies 
+
+ -- Tim Lunn <tim@feathertop.org>  Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:49:26 +1100
+
 gnome-contacts (3.27.90-1build1) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * No change rebuild for evolution-data-server transition
diff -Nru gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control
--- gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control	2018-03-04 12:29:40.000000000 +1100
+++ gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control	2018-03-10 10:49:26.000000000 +1100
@@ -17,13 +17,11 @@
                libedataserverui1.2-dev (>= 3.13.90),
                libfolks-dev (>= 0.11.4),
                libfolks-eds-dev (>= 0.11.4),
-               libfolks-telepathy-dev (>= 0.11.4),
                libgee-0.8-dev,
                libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.44.0),
                libgnome-desktop-3-dev (>= 3.8),
                libgoa-1.0-dev,
                libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.22.0),
-               libtelepathy-glib-dev (>= 0.22.0),
                meson (>= 0.37),
                valac (>= 0.24.0),
                xsltproc,
@@ -38,7 +36,6 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
-         telepathy-mission-control-5
 Description: Contacts manager for GNOME
  GNOME Contacts is a standalone application to view and manage contacts
  provided by all available contacts sources (Evolution, Empathy, etc).
diff -Nru gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control.in gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control.in
--- gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control.in	2018-02-14 02:30:07.000000000 +1100
+++ gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/control.in	2018-03-10 10:48:23.000000000 +1100
@@ -13,13 +13,11 @@
                libedataserverui1.2-dev (>= 3.13.90),
                libfolks-dev (>= 0.11.4),
                libfolks-eds-dev (>= 0.11.4),
-               libfolks-telepathy-dev (>= 0.11.4),
                libgee-0.8-dev,
                libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.44.0),
                libgnome-desktop-3-dev (>= 3.8),
                libgoa-1.0-dev,
                libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.22.0),
-               libtelepathy-glib-dev (>= 0.22.0),
                meson (>= 0.37),
                valac (>= 0.24.0),
                xsltproc,
@@ -34,7 +32,6 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
          ${misc:Depends},
-         telepathy-mission-control-5
 Description: Contacts manager for GNOME
  GNOME Contacts is a standalone application to view and manage contacts
  provided by all available contacts sources (Evolution, Empathy, etc).
diff -Nru gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/rules gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/rules
--- gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/rules	2018-02-14 02:30:07.000000000 +1100
+++ gnome-contacts-3.27.90/debian/rules	2018-03-10 10:49:05.000000000 +1100
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 override_dh_auto_configure:
 	dh_auto_configure -- \
 		--libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-contacts \
-		-Dwith-cheese=yes
+		-Dwith-cheese=yes \
+		-Dtelepathy=false
 
 override_dh_installdocs:
 	dh_installdocs