diff --git a/components/packaging/deb/Makefile b/components/packaging/deb/Makefile
index 2ba451c169..f871d13ca8 100644
--- a/components/packaging/deb/Makefile
+++ b/components/packaging/deb/Makefile
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ deb: ubuntu debian raspbian ## build all deb packages
 ubuntu: ubuntu-bionic ubuntu-artful ubuntu-xenial ubuntu-trusty ## build all ubuntu deb packages
 
 .PHONY: debian
-debian: debian-stretch debian-wheezy debian-jessie ## build all debian deb packages
+debian: debian-stretch debian-jessie ## build all debian deb packages
 
 .PHONY: raspbian
 raspbian: raspbian-stretch debian-jessie ## build all raspbian deb packages
@@ -83,12 +83,6 @@ debian-stretch: ## build debian stretch deb packages
 	$(RUN)
 	$(CHOWN) -R $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) debbuild/$@
 
-.PHONY: debian-wheezy
-debian-wheezy: ## build debian wheezy deb packages
-	$(BUILD)
-	$(RUN)
-	$(CHOWN) -R $(shell id -u):$(shell id -g) debbuild/$@
-
 .PHONY: raspbian-jessie
 raspbian-jessie: ## build raspbian jessie deb packages
 	$(BUILD)
diff --git a/components/packaging/deb/debian-wheezy/Dockerfile.x86_64 b/components/packaging/deb/debian-wheezy/Dockerfile.x86_64
deleted file mode 100644
index 65173434f9..0000000000
--- a/components/packaging/deb/debian-wheezy/Dockerfile.x86_64
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-FROM debian:wheezy-backports
-
-# allow replacing httpredir or deb mirror
-ARG APT_MIRROR=deb.debian.org
-RUN sed -ri "s/(httpredir|deb).debian.org/$APT_MIRROR/g" /etc/apt/sources.list
-RUN sed -ri "s/(httpredir|deb).debian.org/$APT_MIRROR/g" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y -t wheezy-backports btrfs-tools --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y apparmor bash-completion  build-essential cmake curl ca-certificates debhelper dh-apparmor dh-systemd git libapparmor-dev libdevmapper-dev libltdl-dev libudev-dev pkg-config vim-common --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ENV GO_VERSION 1.9.5
-RUN curl -fSL "https://golang.org/dl/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz" | tar xzC /usr/local
-ENV GOPATH /go
-ENV PATH $PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin
-ENV DOCKER_BUILDTAGS apparmor pkcs11 selinux
-ENV RUNC_BUILDTAGS apparmor selinux
-
-COPY common/ /root/build-deb/debian
-COPY build-deb /root/build-deb/build-deb
-
-RUN mkdir -p /go/src/github.com/docker && \
-	mkdir -p /go/src/github.com/opencontainers && \
-	ln -snf /engine /root/build-deb/engine && \
-	ln -snf /cli /root/build-deb/cli && \
-	ln -snf /root/build-deb/engine /go/src/github.com/docker/docker && \
-	ln -snf /root/build-deb/cli /go/src/github.com/docker/cli
-
-
-ENV DISTRO debian
-ENV SUITE wheezy
-
-WORKDIR /root/build-deb
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/root/build-deb/build-deb"]