diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6951654e8..c003dc1f5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ linux (4.17~rc1-1~exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     problem appears to have been fixed upstream
   * Drop our patch "Kbuild: kconfig: Verbose version of --listnewconfig";
     listnewconfig now shows symbol values by default
+  * debian/rules.real: Stop enabling verbose output for listnewconfig target
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:37:24 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/rules.real b/debian/rules.real
index 598e4c549..b51e6f7b2 100644
--- a/debian/rules.real
+++ b/debian/rules.real
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ ifdef CFLAGS_KERNEL
 	echo 'CFLAGS_KERNEL += $(CFLAGS_KERNEL)' >> '$(DIR)/.kernelvariables'
 	echo 'CFLAGS_MODULE += $(CFLAGS_KERNEL)' >> '$(DIR)/.kernelvariables'
 endif
-	+$(MAKE_CLEAN) -C '$(SOURCE_DIR)' O='$(CURDIR)/$(DIR)' V=1 listnewconfig
+	+$(MAKE_CLEAN) -C '$(SOURCE_DIR)' O='$(CURDIR)/$(DIR)' listnewconfig
 	+yes "" | $(MAKE_CLEAN) -C '$(SOURCE_DIR)' O='$(CURDIR)/$(DIR)' oldconfig >/dev/null
 	@$(stamp)